The 2017 state aid scoreboard, which was published by the European Commission on Tuesday 16 January, flags up the positive effects of the modernisation of state aid policy in recent years.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, announced that more than 97% of new aid measures were paid out without prior Commission authorisation, under the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), the new rules which came in between 2014 and 2017. Under this text, member states are no...