Luxembourg, 16/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment delivered on 11 July, the Court of First Instance rejected the action brought by a German private clinic, which alleged that German regulations on aid for public hospitals infringed the Community regulation on state aid (case T-167/04). What emerges from both case law and the European regulation is that the European Commission is under no obligation to initiate the formal investigation called for, since the aid was not disproportionate...