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  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    Ukraine war and green transition keep EU state aid near record level

    European Commission has approved more than €733bn in business subsidies since March last year

    People walk past sandbags in Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Semiconductors
    Chipmaker GlobalFoundries criticises planned German subsidies for TSMC

    Chief executive Thomas Caulfield warns that funds from Berlin will distort competition

    Thomas Caulfield
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    EU energy
    EU energy ministers lash out at Polish effort to extend coal subsidies

    Sweden backs continued state aid for fossil fuels as part of planned reform of bloc’s electricity market

    A heap of coal at the Port of Gdansk
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU fight with Apple over €14.3bn tax payments comes to a head Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why Ukraine is still waiting for F-16 fighter jets

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Northvolt AB
    Northvolt to build German battery factory after Berlin pledges state aid

    Government support for ‘flagship project’ unlocks big investment by Swedish start-up

    Northvolt’s research and development centre in Sweden
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Ryanair wins EU court case against Lufthansa’s pandemic aid

    Court judgment is major setback for regulators in Brussels

    A Lufthansa jet taxiing at Frankfurt airport
  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    The Top LinePeter Campbell
    Why Europe is struggling to compete with the US on green subsidies

    VW’s choice of battery factory in North America highlights risks of losing talent and technology across Atlantic

    An aerial view of solar installations in Denmark
  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    European Commission
    EU opens subsidy race with US to fight exodus of green projects

    Brussels will allow members to ‘match’ multi-billion dollar incentives to move across Atlantic

    Solar installations in southern Denmark
  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Do meme 'stonks' still stink?

    EU plans to relax curbs on tax credits in response to ‘toxic’ US subsidies

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    EU plans to relax curbs on tax credits in response to ‘toxic’ US subsidies

    Covid recovery funds could also be redirected under proposed loosening of state-aid rules, according to draft plan

    Margrethe Vestager
  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Europe Express
    How the EU’s frugals and free-spenders may reach a green subsidy deal Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: Paschal Donohoe has become the wrong kind of poster boy

    Charles Michel in front of an EU flag
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    EU seeks to ease state aid rules to counter US green subsidy threat

    France calls for ‘Made in Europe’ strategy in response to America’s Inflation Reduction Act

    Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner
  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    Uniper SE
    EU imposes tough conditions on Germany’s Uniper bailout

    Stricken gas importer will have to sell off its most modern power plant

    Uniper logo at its headquarters in Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Europe Express
    EU leaders to debate response to US stimulus Premium content

    Capitals want to avoid triggering a subsidy race within the bloc

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    European Union
    Brussels targets looser state aid rules at ‘beginning of 2023’

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen plans to ease regulations in response to US green stimulus measures

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Bulb Energy
    Bulb sale to Octopus risks breaching EU state aid rules, Centrica warns

    British Gas owner says contentious deal may lead to test of Northern Ireland protocol

    Montage of Bulb logo on mobile phone and gas stove
  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
    Inside BusinessJavier Espinoza
    EU regulators shrug off legal setbacks on corporate tax schemes

    Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager to continue campaign against governments offering what she sees as unfair subsidies

    Margrethe Vestager
  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    The struggle is real for investors in the high-rate era

    Opec makes no production changes yesterday, cartel awaits Russia oil price cap to take effect

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    Von der Leyen promises EU help for companies lured by US green subsidies

    Commission chief unveils easing of state aid rules to compete with Biden’s climate package

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    Energy crisis
    Brussels aims to relax state aid rules to ease energy sector cash crunch

    Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says plan for rapid action is a ‘no-brainer’

    EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager
  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    EU energy
    Brussels backs ‘crucial’ €5.4bn hydrogen project

    Approval comes under state aid rules as EU seeks to diversify its energy supplies

    Margrethe Vestager speaking about the hydrogen project at a press conference in Brussels
  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Airlines
    Air France-KLM wants freedom from bans on acquisitions

    Head of Franco-Dutch group plans to repay state aid and raise €4bn in fresh capital

    Air France and KLM aircraft at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands
  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla forced to turn down €1.1bn in EU support for German battery plant

    Delays to factory near Berlin meant carmaker was unable to meet European state aid conditions

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Brussels signals extension of looser Covid-era state aid rules

    EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager says bloc seeking to extend deadline ‘one last time’

    Margrethe Vestager during interview in her office in February 2020
  • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
    Alitalia Compagnia Aerea Italiana SpA
    Rome set to be told $900m loan to Alitalia breached EU state-aid rules

    Italian national carrier set to be replaced within weeks by new standalone airline

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