Ryanair has announced that it will sue the European Commission in the European Courts for its 'repeated failure' to take action on a number of State Aid complaints involving Air France, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airways, which were submitted to the Commission over a year ago.

Jonathan Todd, the European Commision's spokesman for the internal market, has said that the commission is set to issue a last warning to Germany tomorrow, instructing the government to modify the law which protects Volkswagen AG from hostile bids.