"Subsidies serve for supporting new and modern technologies that are in the interest of all EU states. That does not apply for atomic energy," Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said.
"The price guaranteed by the state over a period of 35 years, the state loan guarantee by Great Britain of up to £17bn ($26.53bn), and compensation payments for the case of a premature closure of the plant in our opinion contradict the requirements for a permission for state aid."
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