Margrethe Vestager: "There is a huge gap between EU countries on state aid"

Margrethe Vestager claims to have no guarantee at this stage that the recovery plan will be ambitious enough to restart all the economies of the European bloc at the same pace.

LE FIGARO. - Many rules have been relaxed in the area of ​​public aid to businesses. Would you have become the European Commissioner for Non-Competition?

Margrethe VESTAGER. - I'm fine, I'm alive and I always kick as the Commissioner of Competition! I participated in a meeting at the end of last week during which ministers complained that we were not fast enough and too strict. We have experienced recessions. We had never known containment. The situation we are going through is extraordinary because the needs of economies are unprecedented. We have developed a temporary framework for state aid. It has applied since March 19. The idea is to allow a lot of state aid

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