Commissioner Almunia’s State Aid Modernization Project – Taking Stock

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Ulrich Soltész, May 28, 2014

Over the last few years many attempts have been made to modernize the European State aid rules, such as the ambitious “State Aid Action Plan” of Commissioner Kroes and the various ideas put forward by her predecessors Monti and Van Miert. While the impact of these previous reform projects was rather limited, it seems that Commissioner Almunia has now got it right. With its “State Aid