Annulment: The General Court of the European Union annuls the European Commission’s decision not to raise objections to operating aid granted to Frankfurt-Hahn airport (Deutsche Lufthansa)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The judgment under comment is set in the general context of the aid granted by the German authorities to Frankfurt-Hahn airport(HHN) and to Ryanair, the company using that airport, and the litigation which arose from it (Trib. EU, 12 April 2019, Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission, T-492/15, EU:T:2019:252, comm. B. Stromsky, Concurrence, No. 3-2019, p. 146 ; Trib. EU, 17 May 2019, Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission, T-764/15, EU:T:2019:349). In this case, the dispute concerns operating aid, amounting to EUR 25.3 million, which the German authorities wished to pay to HHN from 2018 to 2022, in order to cover its operational losses. After receiving a