"The EU Commission has approved an aid of 24.7 million euros allocated by Italy to compensate Alitalia for the further damage suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic": so the EU antitrust in a statement.
"The measure approved today allows Italy to further compensate for the direct damage suffered by Alitalia between November and December 2020 due to the restrictions" of the coronavirus, said the commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager.
For the EU, the measure is proportionate, and after the analysis of the damage route by route it has found that "the compensation does not go beyond what is strictly necessary" to compensate them.
The amount is therefore lower than Italy's request of 55 million euros that had been reported in recent weeks by the Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, who had assured the OK of the vice president of the EU Commission, Margrethe Vestager. Brussels, however, can only authorize the amount that corresponds to the damages expressly linked to Covid.
