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Re:Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax by kuschku on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:46AM (#12008437)
> With the EU leadership being corrupt or incometent, it is no wonder the big companies are dancing circles around the national tax authorities.

Well, it’s more like the EU can not do anything while the national authorities can veto them, and the national authorities still have the competence for that, and the right-populists in the EU are proposing even less power for the EU authorities.

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Re:Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax by tobias3 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:04AM (#12008600)
Yes, indeed. And now Juncker is trying to pass CETA without national parliaments and that is currently backfiring, too.

There was this moment during the crisis where I think we could have moved forward with EU bonds, a proper banking union, increased EU budged and debt relief for Greece. But now we are stuck with a deteriorating status quo.

I blame Merkel for lack of leadership but maybe she just knows the limits of what she can push through.

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