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27th Feb – Britain should strike out with its own state aid rules

By James Webber, 27th February 2020

A major stumbling block in Brexit negotiations doesn’t have to be an impasse if the government takes the initiative.

Excerpt: ‘Europe’s state aid rules […] risk dragging the EU’s top court into deciding how they are to be interpreted. Moreover, there are many things wrong with how the EU rules work.

[T]he UK must implement primary legislation to ensure that at least all measures in Great Britain are controlled by a UK subsidy regime. The alternative may be to accept that the vexed “level playing field” provisions on state aid have already been given away — but that is not the government’s position.’

Click here to read the full article.

Read James Webber’s recent publication with Politeia here: ‘All Change? UK State Aid after Brexit: What Law? What Courts?

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