Prof Dr Phedon Nicolaides (P.)

Books 2020-2025

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2024, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2025)

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2023, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2024)

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2022, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2023)

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2021, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2022)

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2020, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2021)

State Aid Uncovered: Critical Analysis of Developments in State Aid: 2019, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2020)

Articles in refereed journals or edited books 2020-2025

The beauty contest of public procurement procedures to satisfy the Altmark test (with S. Schoenmaekers), Tijdschrift voor Staatssteun, December 2025

Single Undertakings and De Minimis Aid, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2025

A Test for Ensuring that State Aid Does Not Infringe other Provisions of EU Law, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2025

Investor – State Disputes in the Context of EU State Aid Law, European Competition Law Review, 2024

EU Liability and Judicial (Un)predictability: an Appraisal of the Test for a Serious Breach of Law under Article 340(2) TFEU (with A. Cuomo), European Law Review, 2024

Non-Contractual Liability of the EU, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2024

Demystifying the Balancing of the Positive and Negative Effects of State Aid, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2024

The Discretion of Competition Authorities and their Liability for Damage they Cause with Erroneous Decisions, European Competition Law Review, 2024

The Court of Justice Allows Member States to Compensate the Undertaking of their Choice: A Critique, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2023

Access to European Commission Guidance, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2023

The Commission must apply strictly the provisions of the Temporary Framework, but State aid for Ryanair remains a pie in the sky, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2023

Incentive Effect of State Aid: Necessity & Counterfactual, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2023

Must the Commission Prohibit State Aid that Harms the Environment? European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2023

The Evolving Case Law on Regional Aid, European Competition Law Review, 2023

Commission Decisional Practice on State Aid for Large Regional Development Projects, European Competition Law Review, 2023

Legal Options of Competitors of Aid Recipients, Tijdschrift voor Staatssteun, December 2022

Private Enforcement of EU State Aid Rules, Concurrences, November 2022

Central Bank Independence: It is protected but is it clearly delineated? Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2022

Liability in the EU Banking Union, Review of European Administrative Law , July 2022

Can the Borrowing for the Next Generation EU Infringe Article 125 TFEU? European Law Review, 2022

State Aid to Combat Covid-19: It Supports National Economies but what Is its Impact on the Internal Market? (with C. Soupart), European Competition Law Review, 2022

The Evolving Case Law on Article 107(3)(b) TFEU, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2022

Altmark Case Law: 2018-2021, in C. Buts & J.L. Buendia, eds, Milestones in State Aid Case Law, (Berlin: Lexxion, 2022)

The Appropriateness of State Aid and the Principle of Non-discrimination, European Competition Law Review, 2022

The Danger of Judicial Nationalism:, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2021

State Aid Notification in the European Union, in R. Whish, ed., Global Dictionary of Competition Law, Concurrences, 2021

The Euro Group and Judicial Protection, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2021

The Design of Enforcement Institutions: Lessons from the UK’s New State Aid Control Regime, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2021

Limits of Proportionate Discrimination, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2021

The Application of the Principle of Proportionality to Monetary Policy: An Impossible Task? (with C. Kool) European Law Review, 2021

The Economics of State Aid and the Fundamental State Aid Trilemma, in L. Hancher et al (eds), European State Aids, (Thomson Reuters, 2021), 6th edition.

Shedding Light into the “Black Box” of State Aid: The Impact of “Hinkley Point C” on the Assessment of the Compatibility of State Aid, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2021

State aid after the Banking Union: Serious disturbance and public interest, Journal of Banking Regulation, 2021

An Assessment of the Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the Public Sector Asset Purchase Programme of the European Central Bank, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 2020

Application of Article 107(2)(b) TFEU to Covid-19 Measures: State Aid to Make Good the Damage Caused by an Exceptional Occurrence, Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, 2020

Covid-19 Can Affect Banks Too: Application of EU Banking and State Aid Rules, European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2020

Milestones in the Application of Article 107(1) TFEU to Taxation, Algemeen Fiscaal Tijdschrift, (Wolters Kluwer, 2020)

The Agreement on the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU: Impact on State Aid, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2020

Other articles 2020-2022

The Brave New World of State Aid in Post-Brexit UK, EU Law Live, February 2021

The UK is not Bound by EU State Aid Rules: Subsidies in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK, EU Law Live, January 2021

The ECB is Responding to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: A Comparison of Monetary Policy Accounts, EU Law Live, June 2020

The Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the Public Sector Asset Purchase Programme of the European Central Bank: Setting an Impossible and Contradictory Test of Proportionality, EU Law Live, May 2020

Is Mutual Financial Assistance in the form of Common “Corona Bonds” Legally Possible? EU Law Live, April 2020