This contribution illustrates the European Commission's reliance on EU state aid rules to pursue a complex mix of competition and regulatory objectives in the framework of the financial crisis. Section 1 sketches the framework that enabled the Commission to review bailout plans and condition...

The exchange and the use of information within the European Competition Network is a key feature of the cooperative enforcement system established by Regulation 1/2003. So is the autonomy of Member States in designing their own national procedural framework for the application of Articles 101...