Prudent private investor test: The Tribunal of the European Union annuls again article 1 of the Commission’s decision of August 2, 2004 qualifying as State aid the support measures granted to the French incumbent telecom operator (France Télécom)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Court of First Instance, 2 July 2015, Joined Cases T-425/04 RENV and T-444/04 RENV (France Télécom) The Court of the European Union persists and signs in the case of France's 2002 support for France Telecom! After having annulled for the first time Article 1 of the decision of 2 August 2004Under the terms of which the Commission had concluded that the shareholder's advance granted by France to France Télécom in December 2002 in the form of a EUR 9 billion credit line, placed in the context of the declarations made by the French authorities since July 2002, constituted State aid incompatible with Union law, the Court of First Instance, urged by the Court of