On Monday 15 May, the European Commission announced that it had examined the measures in favour of RUCH, a chain of shops whose activities include press distribution in Poland, under Article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, and found that they did not constitute State aid.
One of RUCH’s competitors complained to the Commission in 2019 after RUCH, which had been in difficulty since 2012, received, among other things, liquidity support of around €58.9 million from...