European Institute

 

Europe’s patience finally ran out. After waiting more than two years for U.S. authorities to give a fly permit to an Irish-based subsidiary of low-cost Norwegian airlines, the EU Commission has told Washington that it will launch arbitration proceedings against it for breaching the 2007 EU-U.S. Open Skies agreement. “I find it regrettable that this is the outcome,” EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc wrote in a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. Bulc said that formal notification that the agreement’s arbitration clause was being invoked would be made “in the coming weeks.”