In January, the commission took a preliminary view that Amazon's deal with Luxembourg also amounted to state aid.
Mr Almunia said in 2010 that the exemption amounted to state aid that might breach EU competition law.
The £130m Google tax deal faces an investigation by the European Commission into whether the agreement amounted to state aid in breach of EU rules.
Some Dresden protesters voiced their frustration at Merkel's condemnation, with one Pegida organiser telling the crowds that her speech amounted to "state repression".
William Wells, the director of Townhouse gallery, said staff were allowed to return last week, having been given two weeks to comply with new legal restrictions, some of which amounted to state control of its work.
The commission has been investigating whether Apple's tax deals with Ireland, which have allowed the company to pay very little tax on income earned throughout Europe, amounted to state aid.
In the case of Apple, the European commission released a provisional finding that Apple's private tax approvals from the Irish authorities, stretching back decades, were so ridiculously generous that they amounted to state aid.
About 15,000 people demonstrated in Russia's Ingushetia region yesterday with the area's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, saying that publication amounted to "state extremism on the part of some Western countries", according to Radio Free Europe.
When Francia died, he left behind a quietly prosperous country that had adjusted well to what amounted to state socialism, but he also left a country of rustics with no political experience and a strong tradition of dictatorial rule.
It was a policy that amounted to state confiscation of private property from Iraqis.
The European Commission has also been investigating the corporation tax arrangements of several European Union (EU) member states to determine whether those tax arrangements amounted to state aid.
