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Ensuring startups aren't frozen out of state aid is 'high priority' for EU, Vestager says

By Michael Acton
  • 25 May 2020 12:57
  • 26 May 2020 03:48
Healthy but loss-making startups risk being frozen out of emergency state aid programs because they could be dismissed as failing companies, and preventing them from falling through the gaps is a "high priority" for the European Commission, the EU's antitrust chief has said.
Speaking to the European Parliament's economic affairs

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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