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Irish lawyers clash with EU commission in Apple case
By EUobserver
US tech giant Apple was not treated more favourably than any other firm and it was "absurd" to say Ireland would have knowingly foregone €13bn in lost taxes, lawyers for the Irish government and the US firm said in an EU court hearing in Luxembourg Wednesday. A European Commission lawyer said Dublin "blindingly accepted" Apple's proposal to minimise taxes, in what EU anti-trust chiefs said amounted to illegal state aid.