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Europe is no longer afraid of nationalising companies
Nationalising companies is no longer a taboo topic for the European Union's state members. After the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st-century privatisations, the economic crisis of 2008 gave a central role back to State ownership. The COVID-19 outbreak has opened the leading European companies' doors to the public capital, writes Álvaro Merino for El Orden Mundial.
- Despite the usual German perception of state intervention in private companies as a violation of the free-market orthodoxy, last May, the Merkel government bailed out Lufthansa airline with a 9 billion euros fee in exchange for 20% of its shares.
- In April 2020, the European Commission changed the Temporary state aid Framework to facilitate state intervention.
- The debate on the management of publicly owned companies will still have a long road in the EU, its existence however is already a shred of evidence.
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The News Impact Summits Online 2021
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