The General Court of the European Union rejected the action brought by German companies Breuninger and Falke against the European Commission’s decision of November 2020, amended in February 2021, to authorise German public aid to German companies that suffered heavy losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday 21 December (Judgments T-260&306/21).
The companies Breuninger and Falke seek the annulment of the Commission’s amended decision declaring the German...