EU state aid: What comes after the crisis?

The European Commission has put many firms on life support to survive the immediate economic impact of the crisis. But what happens after EU state aid runs out?

How different is the temporary framework to anything we have seen before? Are there restrictions on the amount of aid that is being approved? And what actions are needed to normalise competitive relationships?

Topics on the agenda include: 

• Whether there should be restrictions on both EU and non-EU companies with more state aid support and/or larger reserves acquiring weaker competitors?
• Whether state aid needed by large national companies, such as airlines, should necessarily be converted into equity owned by the state?
• Whether what has been described as a short-term, temporary framework will in fact lead to a permanent change in approach?