Selective advantage: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms the qualification as State aid of the reduction of the compensation to be paid to the State by the French incumbent telecom operator for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants (Orange)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 26 October 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C-211/15 (Orange). It dismissed in its entirety the appeal brought by Orange against the judgment delivered on 26 February 2015 in Case T-385/12 (Orange v Commission), in which the Court of First Instance of the European Union upheld in its entirety the Commission's decision of 20 December 2011, which had declared compatible with the internal market the aid constituted by the employer's contribution in full discharge of liabilities to be paid by France Télécom, provided that that contribution was calculated and levied in such a way that it no longer favoured the