Confusion abounds and allegations start flying over the tendering of CalMac’s ferry routes, contracts, subsidies, state aid, and the European Commission.
It’s all because CalMac receives around £70m a year in public subsidy. The European Commission doesn’t much like subsidy, or state aid as it calls it, unless it is justified by social need and everybody has a chance to get their hands on it.
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The Highland Line: Calmac confusion, part 94
It comes around roughly every five years.
Confusion abounds and allegations start flying over the tendering of CalMac’s ferry routes, contracts, subsidies, state aid, and the European Commission.
It’s all because CalMac receives around £70m a year in public subsidy. The European Commission doesn’t much like subsidy, or state aid as it calls it, unless it is justified by social need and everybody has a chance to get their hands on it.
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