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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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