On Friday 26 October, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation to determine whether measures granted by the German Land of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Irish company Ryanair and the company Flughafengesellschaft Frankfurt-Hahn (FFHG) at the airport of Frankfurt-Hahn are compatible with EU State aid rules.
The Commission received a complaint arguing that the measures in favour of Ryanair and the airport operator FFHG, which was controlled by the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate...