State aid
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European Commission's role in State aid
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The search, conducted on 13 May 2025, focused on English-language peer review literature and was based on the query [‘European Commission’ OR EC OR ‘European Union’ OR EU] AND [‘State aid’] in the Scopus database. We applied inclusion criteria to exclude purely doctrinal legal or technical economic studies unless they also addressed policy or political implications. From an initial pool of 820 records, we selected 64 publications based on abstract relevance. After full-text review, 30 were excluded, resulting in a core set of 34 publications. We then reviewed an additional 32 works identified through snowball sampling of references based on the assessment of contextual relevance and the title, selecting 14 after assessing full-text content. This yielded a final dataset of 48 publications.