COVID-19: The General Court of the European Union dismisses the action of a low-cost airline and confirms that the European Commission could approve the recapitalization of an airline carried out by its public and private owners on a pro rata basis of the pre-existing ownership structure without initiating the formal review procedure (Ryanair)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. As early as May 2020, the Commission had approved (without opening the formal (without opening the formal investigation procedure) a loan 600 million loan guarantee measure granted by Denmark to cover Denmark to cover Finnair's liquidity needs. Finnair. Factual and legal context As this decision was challenged by Ryanair, on April 14, 2021, the Tribunal rendered one of its first three 2021, the Court of First Instance delivered one of its first three judgments on the validity of the Commission's decisions approving individual individual measures to airlines. The Court of First Instance rejected all the arguments raised by Ryanair (application of Article

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