Apart from tremon&#x27;s excellent point elsewhere that you&#x27;ve noted, don&#x27;t forget this sort of thing already happens all the time.<p>If a region (say a state or a county in a state or a town in a county in a state) helps a company out and that turns out to be wrong, passing legislation it wasn&#x27;t allowed to, why would you expect the company to also get off the hook? That would seem to provide an even greater incentive to perform corruption because once it&#x27;s done, as the company you&#x27;re immune from the consequences.<p>Especially big multi-nationals with lots of lawyers who <i>knew</i> the possibility that this exact thing would happen. They went in to this deal knowing full well the EU might turn around and say the deal violated the company aid treaties.