2023-12-20 20:58:58
An Air France plane on the tarmac at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – The consequences, still uncertain, could be modest, since the aid paid has already been reimbursed.
The justice system of the European Union has a certain talent for the twist, this screenwriting process widely used in cinema which consists of placing a totally unexpected twist at the end of the story. This Wednesday, December 20, the Court of First Instance of the European Union thus annulled the decisions of the European Commission approving the aid that the French State had granted to Air France-KLM to get through the health crisis linked to Covid, in 2020 .
The concrete consequences of this decision are, however, still largely uncertain. The company Ryanair, which is at the origin of the complaint which led to this cancellation, published a press release in which it “welcomes the decisions of the General Court of the European Union”. And the Irish company to call “the European Commission to order France to immediately recover this illegal state aid of several billion euros from Air France-KLM and to impose adequate remedies to repair at least part…
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