The On Air Media Professionals and Different Media judgments bring to the forefront, with the finesse of a reflection on meaning and justice, the fragile balance between legal expressions and the legitimate trust of those who rely upon it. Both cases originated from an apparently minor translation error in the Romanian version of Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 (the General Block Exemption Regulation – GBER), where th...

The paper at hand analyzes Case C-349/17 – Eesti Pagar as a landmark decision in the development of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s case law on the decentralized enforcement of State aid rules. Through this judgment, the CJEU reaffirmed the essential institutional role of national courts in ensuring compliance with Article 108(3) TFEU, highlighting their duty to assess ex officio the legality of public support measures, t...