Research Handbook on European State Aid Law 2021
DOI: 10.4337/9781789909258.00008
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State aid control from a political science perspective

Abstract: I. INTRODUCTION 1European State aid rules and decision-making has always been politically sensitive. In contrast to antitrust or mergers, State aid control is '… the privileged dialogue between the Commission, national governments and favoured firms '. 2 The relationship between the Commission and Member States lies at its heart, however, with firms playing only an indirect role. Given their strong distributive element, State aid measures and EU responses to those measures also have the potential to attract c… Show more

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“…it must be stressed that eu state aid rules are not "policymaking" rules of the eu, i.e., in general, they are not designed for the eu to shape its own policy. these rules represent one of the safeguard tools created to protect the internal market from segmentation owing to encroachments of the member states into free-market economies, and the Commission can only guide, monitor, control, direct, and shape some scope of state aid (Cini, 2021), but never create policy and establish schemes itself. this is one of the reasons why, apart from the recovery and resilience facility of the eu, the answer of the member states of the eu to Covid-19 in terms of state aid is not uniform.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…it must be stressed that eu state aid rules are not "policymaking" rules of the eu, i.e., in general, they are not designed for the eu to shape its own policy. these rules represent one of the safeguard tools created to protect the internal market from segmentation owing to encroachments of the member states into free-market economies, and the Commission can only guide, monitor, control, direct, and shape some scope of state aid (Cini, 2021), but never create policy and establish schemes itself. this is one of the reasons why, apart from the recovery and resilience facility of the eu, the answer of the member states of the eu to Covid-19 in terms of state aid is not uniform.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%