On Thursday 19 September, the European Commission approved the Greek Primary Residence Protection Scheme to support households in financial difficulty and at risk of losing their housing due to a potentially unpaid loan.
This measure was the subject of particular attention in the context of the disbursement of an instalment of aid of almost one billion euros to Athens last May (see EUROPE B12246A18, B12230A3). But it is of course on the ‘State aid’ component that the Commission is...