In a judgment handed down on Wednesday 6 November (case T-827/22), the General Court of the European Union dismissed the action brought by the Hungarian airline Wizz Air against Romanian State aid to the national airline TAROM in the form of a capital injection of almost €2 million, for damage suffered between July and December 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and approved in April 2022 by the European Commission (see EUROPE B12943A18).
The General Court noted that the aid at issue was...