Integration in small steps: The European commission and member‐state aid to industry

摘要: Member states of the European Union traditionally have used a variety aids to industry develop national champions, rescue major enterprises in financial trouble, and make more competitive internationally. Yet making single market operational sustaining cohesion across member with different abilities aid their industrial requires that Commission monitor state closely. Most accounts this tension point weak record rejecting packages proposed by states. This article argues rate rejection is highly misleading indicator Commission's influence policy area. In fact, has developed substantial capacities regulate relative constraints within which it operates.