In view of the EU’s worsening image problem and the fairly deep divides within it, the Commission made a point of getting things back in hand, making multiple public statements and concentrating on what it could do itself. It relaxed its competition policy, adopting a temporary State aid framework on 19 March (which was then amended on 3 April); on the back of this, it has made more than 40 positive decisions on regimes notified to it by many member states, to help out sectors of the...