Brussels, 21/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - According to the latest EU State Aid Scoreboard compiled by the European Commission, the total amount of State aid granted by the fifteen Member States was estimated at €49 billion in 2002, confirming the trend begun in the final half of the last decade. "A national subsidy race remains one of the most serious threats to the unity of the common market…Our vigilance has fostered a tendency to redirect aid towards horizontal objectives of common...