Francesco de Cecco | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Europa Institute Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:25:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/files/2015/03/European-Futures-Icon.png Francesco de Cecco | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk 32 32 State Aid and Steel: How Much Are the Government’s Hands Tied? https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/state-aid-and-steel-how-much-are-the-governments-hands-tied/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:00:49 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=2847 Francesco de Cecco One of the primary reasons cited by the UK Government for not intervening directly to rescue plants and jobs in the steel sector is EU state aid rules, which prohibit governments from providing certain kinds of support to industry, writes Francesco de Cecco. He argues that, while EU provisions for steel are …

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