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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8761

4 August 2004
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/state aid
After Olympic Games in Athens, Commission will call for subsidies to Olympic Airways to be reimbursed, Lamoureux announces

Brussels, 03/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is to call for State aid paid out in subsidies to the Greek airline Olympic Airways to be paid back, it was announced last week by the Director General for Transport at the European Commission, François Lamoureux. "After the Olympic Games, we shall call for reimbursement by injunction" of aid paid by the Greek State to the airline company, he told the European Parliament committee on transport. In March this year, the Commission...