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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9773

31 October 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/state aid
Commission approves Swedish and Portuguese aid to financial sector

Brussels, 30/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 30 October, the European Commission approved Swedish and Portuguese state rescue packages to the financial sector. This takes to six the number of member states whose (similar) packages have been approved. A number of others - from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Italy - are currently being examined by the Commission.

The Swedish and Portuguese schemes are “both guarantee regimes”, the spokesman for the Competition Commissioner...

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(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission approves Swedish and Portuguese aid to financial sector
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