On Wednesday 20 December, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) overturned the decision of the European Commission in several joined cases ordering the recovery of Spanish state aid to the television operator Retegal, on the grounds of an insufficient statement of reasoning.
Between 2005 and 2009, the Spanish public authorities granted public support to television operators to facilitate the switchover from analogue to digital television across a large proportion of the national...