Brussels, 24/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has taken stock of the recent developments and sketched out future prospects of the Commission's State aid policy. Speaking before several hundred people on Friday 21 November, the commissioner stressed the progress made by the State aid action plan since it was inaugurated in 2005.
In the context of the financial crisis, “State aid rules have become sexy, so to say”, she said. In these difficult times,...