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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9650

25 April 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission doubts legality of Berlusconi proposal on Alitalia

Brussels, 24/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - According to the spokesperson for Commissioner Jacques Barrot, the European Commission harbours certain doubts about the “very nature” of the measures proposed by the Italian authorities to save Alitalia airlines, following the decision of the Air France-KLM consortium not to take the company back under its control. On Tuesday 22 April, the government of Silvio Berlusconi decided to allocate €300 million in emergency funds to safeguard Alitalia's...

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