"This latest bailout makes a mockery of EU state aid rules, " said Ryanair's head of legal affairs, Jim Callaghan.
Ashley Fox says he has written to the European Commission to ask whether the Welsh Government buying the airport breaches EU state aid rules.
They're investigating whether it breaches EU state aid rules.
While the state aid rules require the UK government to represent the banks' interests in negotiating with the commissioner in Brussels, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, used a BBC Scotland interview to reassure that the changes will not scatter the banks to the four winds, and nor will the changes be instant.
The second plan is to extend state-aid rules to cover tax breaks offered as inducements to companies to relocate.
The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.
In other countries subsidies helped to kick-start demand, but Britain's system of conversion grants was badly run, and eventually fell foul of European state-aid rules.
Spain's government for months argued with Brussels, ultimately unsuccessfully, to allow for some flexibility on state-aid rules that require investors share the burden with taxpayers.
This is partly because the combined bank is obliged under European state-aid rules to shrink its balance-sheet in return for the help it has received from the government.
France does not have majority support for an assault on tough EU rules against state aid.
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One was the phasing out of special tax-breaks for southern manufacturers, which broke European Union rules on state aid.
When the crisis first struck, the commission's competition regulators relaxed their rules on state aid to allow the bail-out of banks and to help firms that suddenly faced a dearth of credit.
EU's vigorous enforcement of rules against state-aid and monopolies and coming deregulation in fields such as telecoms.
The hitch is that, under EU rules, the state financial aid that lubricated such deals will end in 2013.
The Finaid Web site, a compendium of information on college financial aid, has links to state residency rules.
Such a market requires policing, for instance of state aid to companies, curbs on migration or the application of competition rules.
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