Brussels — Covid-19 business subsidies totalling about €3-trillion have been “very unevenly distributed” in the EU and risk fracturing the bloc’s single market, antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager says.
Germany’s greater financial firepower is allowing it to help its domestic companies far more than some other EU nations, with the nation accounting for about half of the money pledged to date in loan guarantees, grants, subsidised loans and company rescues...
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