Apple and the need for an EU-US reboot
PARIS — Europe and the U.S. will not start a diplomatic war over their latest dispute, the EU’s €13 billion Apple smackdown, but they may have to resort to a classic computer fix to get rid of glitches...
View ArticleiFailure: Apple crashes in Brussels
Its founder was a genius. Its customers offer cultish loyalty. Shareholders love it. It not only dominates its market; it created it. In nearly every arena in which it engages, Apple stands for...
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Tim Cook: Apple tax ruling ‘political,’‘maddening’
Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook said the European Commission’s decision to force Ireland to claw back €13 billion plus interest in illegal tax breaks from his company “has no basis in fact or in law,”...
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Margrethe Vestager to Apple CEO: No political motivation here
Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition czar, denied claims today by Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook that her tax ruling against the iPhone maker was politically motivated. The Commission ruled Tuesday...
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Apple fight tests Europe’s operating system
Apple chief executive Tim Cook is at least half-right when he describes as “political” the European Commission’s demand that Ireland should claw back €13 billion in forgone taxes from the American...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
Exclusively drawn for POLITICO.eu | By Rytis Daukantas “Burkini?” “No … Ashamed.” First published on Knack, August 31, 2016 | By Konstantinos Tsanakas First published in Ruhr-Nachrichten, Germany,...
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Ireland to appeal Apple tax bill
The Irish government Friday confirmed it will appeal the tax bill of up to €13 billion, plus interest, the European Commission hit Apple with this week. Ireland will seek the endorsement of the Irish...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: SUMMER MEMORIES — PRIME BRUSSELS REAL ESTATE...
BACK IN OFFICE: We’ve monitored the entrances, checked your out-of-office replies and asked our network of spies, and the Council of the European Union seemed to be the least open institution of the...
View ArticleIn the loop September 3: Apple vs the Commission, the TTIP Political Ticket,...
This week, Bjarke Smith-Meyer speaks to Playbook writer Ryan Heath about the Apple aftermath, following the European Commission’s state aid decision this week. Trade and agriculture editor Christian...
View ArticleApple CEO: EU ‘intentionally misleading’ on taxes
Apple CEO Tim Cook accused the European Commission of having “ignored” Apple tax data to reach “intentionally misleading” tax conclusions. In an interview that was published today in the Irish...
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Why Ireland is right to appeal Apple tax bill
Last week, the European Commission claimed that tax rulings issued by Ireland in 1991 and 2007 effectively granted Apple preferential treatment, which amounted to state aid. It ordered Ireland to...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in NZZ am Sonntag, Switzerland, September 4, 2016 | By Chappatte “No, it didn’t come from Kim Jong-un …” First published in Berliner Zeitung, Germany, September 6, 2016 | By Heiko...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: CRUISE CONTROL — PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS — EU...
ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY BOAT: As if the EU institutions didn’t give out enough perks, staff can now enjoy a subsidized Schengen cruise on the “Princesse Marie-Astrid” on September 24. There’ll be a...
View ArticleEU countries eye potential share of Apple windfall
BRATISLAVA — The €13 billion clawback of unpaid taxes from U.S. tech giant Apple has piqued the interests of EU finance ministers, who have today asked the European Commission for more details on the...
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How Vestager took a bite out of Apple
When EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager asked her colleagues in the Commission to approve her recommendation to order Ireland to recover some €13 billion in back taxes from Apple, few if any asked...
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For Margrethe Vestager, timing is of the essence
The decision by Europe’s competition czar to launch a probe into French utility Engie on Monday was quintessential Margrethe Vestager. Its announcement coincided with her arrival in the U.S. to meet...
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SIADA EL RAMLY
Few people can say they represent the views of GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon), and that’s partly because few people can keep them all in the same room, let alone on the same page. El Ramly...
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MARGRETHE VESTAGER
The undisputed political queen of Brussels, Vestager delivered the world’s biggest competition policy decision on August 30: an order that the Irish government recoup up to €13 billion plus interest...
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Tech firms must help investigators access terrorists’ chats
PARIS — Tech firms must do much more to help anti-terror investigators access encrypted chats between terrorists, French and Belgian prosecutors urged at a press conference Friday. Many of their...
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Vestager and Ireland face off over Apple billions
Over coffee and croissants, Margrethe Vestager will come eye-to-eye with Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan on Tuesday morning, just as he is appealing her €13 billion tax ruling against Apple’s...
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