It can be costly to let a dossier on state aid gather dust: Spain has once more incurred fines for playing for time on such a dossier in order to dump the problem on the next government. However, the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has now ordered Spain to pay a lump sum of €30 million, despite the fact that the aid has been recovered in the meantime (Case C-184/11 ).
The aid was granted in the 1990s by three…