Memo: State aid: Commissioner Kroes briefs Economics and Finance Ministers on financial crisis measures

European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes briefed EU Economics and Finance Ministers at their breakfast discussion on the current financial crisis in Brussels on 2 December, 2008. Commissioner Kroes underlined how the Commission had applied the EU competition rules to support financial stability by ensuring legal certainty of support measures whilst preventing national measures from making the crisis worse by exporting problems to other Member States.

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