In a judgment handed down on Wednesday 18 May (case T-577/20) (see EUROPE B12348A25), the General Court of the European Union rejected, in its entirety, the appeal by the airline Ryanair against the European Commission’s decision of October 2019 validating €380 million of emergency German public aid granted to the German company Condor Flugdienst, which had found itself in great difficulty after the liquidation of the tour operator Thomas Cook, which owned it at 100%.
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