Thursday
24th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The European Commission on Tuesday ordered Apple to repay up to €13 billion to Ireland. The EU executive ruled that tax arrangements between Irish authorities and the US tech firm that allowed it to pay less taxes amounted to illegal state aid. The Irish government earlier said it might appeal against any EU decision forcing Apple to pay.
Britain is preparing to say that a new set of tribunals should enforce EU law after Brexit instead of the EU’s Court of Justice.
"The EU now needs to bring its weight to bear, to ensure non-EU countries cooperate on taking back their nationals arriving as economic migrants", writes migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos.
The leading EU member state must sooner or later face its responsibility for Europe's problems, said German political thinker Ulrike Guerot.
The UK is prepared to recognise some court rulings by judges in EU states after Brexit, but its trade ideas continue to attract ridicule.
"Shrugging your shoulders is not a political strategy in the long run," Johannes Hahn has said, calling for a change of course towards Turkey.
A European signatory of an open letter about autonomous weapons says the imagery of fictional killer robots is distracting from a seriously dangerous issue.
