On Thursday 4 March, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the tax regime from which FC Barcelona (FCB), Real Madrid, Athletic Club Bilbao and Club Atlético Osasuna (Pamplona) have benefited for 25 years is illegal Spanish State Aid, definitively dismissing an appeal by FC Barcelona.
With its judgment in Case C-362/19 P, Commission v FútbolClub Barcelona, the Court sets aside the 2019 judgment of the General Court of the European Union, which itself annulled the...