On Thursday 18 October, the European Commission cancelled its action before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that it brought in October 2017 against Ireland for failure to recover illegal aid that the State had awarded to the company Apple.
This procedure followed the Commission's decision of August 2016 ordering the recovery of the sum of €13 billion (plus €1.3 billion in interest) under a tax ruling that was incompatible with the rules of EU State aid law (see EUROPE...