On Wednesday 20 December, the General Court of the European Union annulled the European Commission’s decisions approving State aid granted by France to Air France and Air France-KLM during the Covid-19 pandemic, ruling that the Commission had committed an “error in defining the beneficiaries” (cases T-216/21 and T-494/21).
The General Court “upheld” the actions brought by the airlines Ryanair and Malta Air, which considered the aid measures to be contrary to EU law.
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