\n\tRules for state holdings in struggling companies set. Comment by sworn lawyers Kaspar Endrikson and Carri Ginter.\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tIt has been discussed in Estonia whether one way to help companies struggling in the COVID-19 crisis could be for the state to acquire a piece (i.e. in the context of Tallink and Bolt). The European Commission published new state aid rules on the evening of May 8, following which Estonia could acquire stakes in private companies.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tSuch state aid could considerably distort competition and through it reduce consumers\u2019 choice or hike prices of services. That is why a capital injection from the state would be accompanied by handcuffs to limit the recipient\u2019s operating freedom that could in turn cool firms\u2019 enthusiasm for entering into such a relationship with the state.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMore on that topic:\u00a0https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1088346\/carri-ginter-and-kaspar-endrikson-goodbye-dividends-and-executive-bonuses<\/a>\u00a0(in English) and\u00a0https:\/\/www.err.ee\/1087909\/carri-ginter-ja-kaspar-endrikson-head-aega-dividendid-ja-juhtide-boonused<\/a>\u00a0(in Estonian)\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rules for state holdings in struggling companies set. Comment by sworn lawyers Kaspar Endrikson and Carri Ginter. \u00a0 It has been discussed in Estonia whether one way to help companies struggling in the COVID-19 crisis could be for the state …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/uproeu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}