Advocate General Juliane Kokott proposed to the Court of Justice of the European Union, on Thursday 3 December, to annul the judgment of the General Court which had ruled that the European Commission had failed to fulfil its obligations under the EU Treaty by not sufficiently justifying that the Belgian tax ruling on the exemption of excess profits, from which 55 multinationals benefited from 2004 to 2014, constituted an illegal State Aid scheme (Case C-337/19).
According to Ms Kokott, the...