The Modernization Process of EU State Aid Law: “The Search for the Right Balance Between State Intervention and the Invisible Hand”

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Stefano Grassani, May 28, 2014

One of the distinct and unique features of European antitrust law is (and has always been since its enactment in 1957) that the rules on restraints of trade and monopolization are complemented by a set of provisions, as embedded in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which, while not strictly related to the pursuit of anticompetitive conducts per se, nevertheless aim at effectively e