BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The second European court on Wednesday upheld Irish airline Ryanair’s appeal against the 2020 state bailout of Germany’s Lufthansa sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and approved by EU competition regulators.
“The General Court annuls the Commission’s decision to approve the recapitalization of Lufthansa by Germany, amounting to 6 billion euros, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Luxembourg-based court said.
He cited mistakes made by the EU executive in its decision.
The merged cases are T-34/21 Ryanair v Commission (Lufthansa; COVID-19) and T-87/21 Condor Flugdienst v Commission (Lufthansa; COVID-19).
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valencia)
