Hungary delivers fresh blow to Vestager’s ongoing tax crusade

Hungary has won a court fight with EU regulators over a tax on advertising, in another setback for Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s crusade against countries she says are taking advantage of state aid-rules to give select companies an unfair advantage over rivals.

Vestager’s officials at the European Commission failed to show that the Hungarian tax was discriminatory, the EU General Court, the bloc’s second-highest tribunal, ruled.