Ryanair to sue EC in row over state aid to rival airlines
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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Ryanair has announced its intention to sue the European Commission for allegedly failing to investigate complaints over state aid to national airlines.
The Irish airline claims rivals Air France, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airlines receive hundreds of millions of euros in illegal state assistance from the governments of their respective countries.
It says the EC is failing to investigate Ryanair complaints about this assistance and it now plans to take a case over the matter before the European courts.
Just over three years ago, the EC ordered Ryanair to pay back more than €3m in illegal subsidies that it received from the regional government that owns Charleroi Airport in Belgium.
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