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Has the Commission Practice Applied Double Standards? journal article

Andreas Bartosch

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 2 (2003), Issue 3, Page 1

Every contribution in this Issue deals with the Court’s landmark ruling on Altmark. Within the short period of its existence, this Journal has consistently tried to reflect the on-going discussion on State aid surveillance over compensation of public service fulfilment. Apart from the many questions that the ruling of 24 July 2003 is likely to pose, this is perhaps one more political aspect of the practice followed thus far by the European Commission that,


Big enough to Fail? journal article

Andreas Bartosch

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 2 (2003), Issue 4, Page 1

Holzmann, Bull, Air France, Crédit Lyonnais, Bankgesellschaft Berlin, and, particularly, Alstom: these are just the very few names that immediately spring up from one’s memory when one talks about subsidies to ailing companies. All of these cases have one thing in common: they give the impression that European Member States have continuously tried to prolong the lives of big and cherished companies by throwing the tax payers’ money at them. Big companies i