The test of Apple’s different political thinking
Apple products are everywhere in Brussels. Now try to find an Apple lobbyist in the European capital. Company executives rarely visit the European Parliament or Commission. Apple spends a fraction of...
View ArticleApple to pay €318 million in tax in Italy: reports
U.S. tech giant Apple has agreed to pay Italy’s tax authorities €318 million in back taxes after a two-year investigation, Italian media reported Wednesday. La Repubblica said Agenzia delle Entrate...
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Europe cracks down on tax dodgers
Tax policy has never been sexier. Rampant corporate tax dodging and sweetheart deals that cheat governments and skew markets, have prompted the European Commission to unveil a new directive Thursday....
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus — CAMERON on edge — STYE WARS — GREEK weed
CAMERON on edge — STYE WARS — BREXIT, the musical — GREEK weed — COMMISSION fast-track on trade ANXIOUS DAVE: David Cameron has been using pity points as his latest tactic to win the support of EU...
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Apple, US fight heads to Capitol Hill
A bitter legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department is shifting to Capitol Hill, where both sides are urging members of Congress to pursue new ground rules for when tech companies must...
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Poll: Half of Americans say Apple should help FBI unlock iPhone
Roughly half of Americans are siding with the government over Apple about whether it should help unlock the iPhone connected to the San Bernardino attacks, according to the results of a new Pew...
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Feds drop fight with Apple over terrorist’s iPhone
The federal government Monday dropped its bid to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by a shooter in last year’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, saying the FBI has succeeded in...
View ArticleChanging the way artists get paid
Europe’s tech companies are beginning to sweat. A few weeks ago, a group of lobbyists backed by Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft handed a letter to European Commissioner Günther Oettinger, urging...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
“TTIP negotiations.” “It’s not so bad as it seems! Really!” First published in in Der Tagesspiegel, Germany, May 3, 2016 | By Klaus Stuttmann Exclusively drawn for POLITICO.eu | By Rytis Daukantas...
View ArticleFrance releases new emergency alert phone app
France launched a new phone application today called SAIP designed to warn users in the event of a terrorist attack. The app was launched in advance of Friday’s Euro 2016 football championships, which...
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Why Europe’s largest economy resists new industrial revolution
BERLIN — For as long as anyone can remember, German manufacturing has been the envy of Europe. From automobile engines to airplane fuselages, nothing says quality like “Made in Germany.” To keep it...
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Vestager gets mugged by Brussels reality
Margrethe Vestager was in a familiar place last week — at the center of global attention. But even as she levied record-breaking fines for illegal collusion on Europe’s largest truck manufacturers, it...
View ArticleRussia investigating Apple over iPhone prices
Russia is investigating whether Apple colluded with resellers to fix the price of its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the country’s Federal Antimonopoly Service announced today. The authority said in a...
View ArticleUS Treasury slams EU tax probes ahead of possible Apple verdict
The Treasury Department upped the ante in a growing U.S.-EU corporate tax battle Wednesday, slamming the European Commission’s tax investigations into multiple U.S.-based companies and taking the...
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Margrethe Vestager closing in on Apple tax case
The European Commission is closing in on a final decision in its state-aid probe into Apple’s tax affairs, which could force the Irish government to recoup millions or even billions of euros in back...
View ArticleMargrethe Vestager to hit Apple with record tax bill
The European Commission is poised to escalate a high-stakes feud with Washington Tuesday by hitting Apple with a massive tax bill, explaining the iPhone maker got illegal help from Ireland that...
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Margrethe Vestager slams Apple with €13 billion tax bill
European competition czar Margrethe Vestager took on the world’s most profitable company Tuesday when she ruled that Apple violated EU rules with a tax arrangement that allowed the iPhone maker to...
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EU politicians ♥ Apple (look here)
Apple was on Tuesday ordered to pay back a staggering €13 billion in taxes to the Irish government as the EU’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, continued her take-no-prisoners approach to state...
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Return of Europe’s civil war on taxation
Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition commissioner, has just turned herself into the EU’s new tax czar. No matter how much the Danish commissioner insists the €13 billion she wants Apple to pay in...
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In Apple case, Europe thinks different
No one can accuse Europe’s competition authorities of lacking innovative thinking. With their move against Apple and Ireland on Tuesday, the EU’s antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, and the head of...
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