The General Court of the European Union has dismissed in its entirety the action for annulment brought by the airline Ryanair against the European Commission’s decision of June 2020 approving the recapitalisation of Finnair by the Finnish State, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday 22 June (Case T-657/20).
According to the European Court, contrary to the arguments of the Irish low cost company, the Commission was not obliged to open a formal procedure to examine the compatibility of the...