On Thursday, 6 February, the European Commission approved, under EU State Aid rules, budget increases for two existing German aid schemes supporting respectively the reduction and exemption from air travel tax applicable to flights to and from small islands in Germany.
The amendments consist of a budgetary increase of €150,000 to finance an air travel tax exemption for people living in small inland islands and a €1 million increase intended to finance an 80% reduction of the air travel...