Seven EU states warn Commission against subsidy race with U.S.

31/1/2023 18:59

        Seven European Union member states from the north and east of the of the bloc have written to Valdis Dombrovskis, vice president of the European Commission, to warn against a subsidy race with the United States, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Tuesday.
        
        The finance ministers of Estonia, Finland, Austria, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Slovakia wrote that too far-reaching financial support for companies "not justified by clear market failures" could lead to a dangerous "subsidy race".
        
        The EU said in December it would adapt its state aid rules to prevent an exodus of investment triggered by the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, which it feared might lure away EU businesses and disadvantage European companies.