Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed indefinitely amid the financial uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump’s recent announcement of massive tariffs on most US trading partners. “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of … Read more
The extent and limits to the Commission’s duty to assess the compatibility of State aid measures with other rules of EU internal market law, and public procurement rules in particular, continues to heat up (see earlier comment here). According to the Court’s press release, today’s Opinion of AG Medina in Austria v Commission (Centrale nucléaire … Read more
The Court of Justice has been recently presented with some cases where a State aid measure was argued to have (not) infringed EU internal market law and should thus (not) have been authorised by the European Commission. These cases raise the common issue of the Commission’s duty to assess proposed State aid measures for compliance … Read more