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In any case, Germany has had to clarify that its state aid would be equally available to any investor with a decent business plan.

For three years, state aid may be granted to extend crisis management measures to non members who enter into a contract with a PO.

State aid had taken the form of reduced-rate loans and guarantees as well as direct subsidies, he said.

Indeed if GM defies Berlin's wishes, the government has said it would reconsider the offer of state aid to any other bidder.

financial gearing ratio is also much higher than that of any other State aid tool.

The family didn't receive the promised state aid which she had planned to spend on coal and winter clothes for the children.

But, as the European Union has long acknowledged, "state aid" to national industrial champions is a form of protectionism.

He was out of work for three years and did not qualify for state aid, so that he was practically on the bread line.

Big companies are of course the main recipients of state aid so far, but small businesses are getting help, too.

But these days state aid, and how to dole it out, are nearly as hotly debated in online hangouts as cloud computing or Steve Jobs's health.

Sweden's finance minister added: "We need to call off these legions of state-aid bureaucrats. "

The move by BNP came as Italy's two biggest banks turned down an offer of state aid and said they would raise capital in the markets.

A VW official suggested the US also had a competitive advantage because European Union state aid rules made support for factories difficult.

The German government is offering billions of euros of state aid to safeguard as many German jobs as possible.

His warning comes as EU competition authorities decide what concessions banks will have to make in return for state aid.

RBS is being forced to sell its global merchant services unit by EU regulators as part of the price of taking state aid.

Not for the sake of the bankers, certainly; nor because state aid will create an efficient financial industry.

Walker said local leaders would need that power to manage the steep cuts in state aid contemplated in his next budget.

Russia needs to cancel state-aid programs, simply its health rules for farm imports and better enforce intellectual-property rights.

Paul got the European commission to open an investigation in 2005, on the allegation that BT was receiving state aid.

These include state aid funds, higher tariffs, immigration restrictions and export subsidies.

Some carriers are being propped up by state aid, in particular in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

State aid rules that prevent the promotion of national industrial champions are being cheerfully trashed.

The European Commission made a concession by approving a large state-aid programme for Poland's shipyard in Gdansk.

The furore rumbled on over bonuses paid at Wall Street companies that have received state aid.

But rows with the European Commission over state aid and restructuring plans make its future uncertain.

The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.

She says she is determined to make full use of her powers to police competition, mergers and state aid for energy companies.

But continually low salaries, weak health coverage and scarce state aid shows little has changed.

Marin is a county that generally stops sampling in the winter season when state aid stops, said Alamillo.

Farmers elsewhere may be unhealthily dependent on state aid.

This is why Mr Sarkozy tried so hard to tie state aid for the car industry to a promise to keep production at home.

The two companies have been at war over state aid for almost six years.

Falling state aid and dwindling local property taxes have only reinforced the trend.

America is to disburse $1 billion in state aid to Ethiopia this year, more if covert stuff is included.

third set and clear exceptions to allow state aid prerequisites and rules of procedure.

These findings are contained in the European Commission's first "state aid scoreboard" dedicated to the 10 new members.

When that is hard, because a parts supplier is highly specialised, say, good management is likely to be more effective than state aid.

Handing over another big dollop of state aid will give Ms Kroes even greater cause for concern.

The European Commission approved this state aid on condition that Bankgesellschaft Berlin be sold after the clean-up.

But when the state aid went, and plentiful labour in eastern Europe appeared, most packed up.

Revenues come mostly from woodland and other subsidies from the central government, plus grants and other state aid, Litwinowicz said.

The Swedes insisted that any bank getting state aid recognize all expected losses before approaching the government for capital.

NOT only in Washington, DC, is there a fierce debate over state aid to the beleaguered car industry.

Commerzbank, its local rival, reached agreement recently with the government for more state aid.

Meanwhile, state-aid programs for start-ups are difficult to access .

State aid for small entrepreneurs also helps.

The merger is supposed to reduce their reliance on state aid.

But the economic crisis that is the reason for the jump in state aid may also limit the amount that governments can afford to hand out.

Yet the EU's state-aid rules forbid members from engaging in such subsidy wars.

Misallocating capital may threaten Europe's single market, because national voters expect state aid to go to the defence of domestic jobs.

At that point, solar and energy producers could sell electricity without state aid.

RHJ wants less state aid -- 3. 8 billion euros -- and plans a similar number of job cuts.

Supporters of state aid point to the government support received by other sectors of the economy, such as carmaking.

Unusually, he is also asking for state aid.

But mostly she is under pressure to relax state-aid rules.

In the meantime, there is state aid.

That is why the European Union enforces tough limits on what it calls "state aid" .

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