Yanis, back in June 2015, Paul Mason of Channel 4news and myself on PS exposed the Irish “Incentive Schemes” when you wrote your essay on the German Queen. The tax incentives that Ireland and other EU states have granted to some corporations (which the EU now wants to claw back in order to save the German banks, yet again) have been known for a very long time, especially for people that are in the know! This “Tit for Tat” vendetta (using the judiciary in one country to fine or penalise a corporation or the bank of another country in order to repatriate (launder) money) had started by the intelligent “Comedian-In-Chief”. The world has been in the midst of wars (financial, political, military, etc. just name it), since 2009. The EU Commission is right to ask Ireland to rectify the situation with Apple and with other corporations, if needs be. Times have changed since the 90s’ and Apple would not have grown and outpaced other corporations if it was not for all this “Indirect Funding”. Many corporations have become financially much stronger than many countries. This just cannot continue and is neither fair nor right. This “Inequality” in treatment, whereby one state within the EU offers better fiscal / funding terms than others to X or Y, has got to stop and this non-sense of the “Comedian-In-Chief” must stop as well (luckily he has only very few weeks left in office). If the leadership of Greece, and I personally have the greatest respect and sympathy to the people of Greece and to Greece itself but none to the leadership, they should have been the first at introducing such schemes in Greece in order to attract investors. I myself gave several examples on PS, one of them was about A. Papandreou who back in the 80s’ offered tax incentives to companies willing to set up business and invest in Greece (Law 89 is one of them). You mentioned Ireland, how about Bulgaria that has taken most businesses from Greece due also to their accommodating laws and tax regimes. In this world it is the rule of the fittest and not only with the look or words but with real and true actions. Yanis, back in June 2015, Paul Mason of Channel 4news and myself on PS exposed the Irish “Incentive Schemes” when you wrote your essay on the German Queen. The tax incentives that Ireland and other EU states have granted to some corporations (which the EU now wants to claw back in order to save the German banks, yet again) have been known for a very long time, especially for people that are in the know! This “Tit for Tat” vendetta (using the judiciary in one country to fine or penalise a corporation or the bank of another country in order to repatriate (launder) money) had started by the intelligent “Comedian-In-Chief”. The world has been in the midst of wars (financial, political, military, etc. just name it), since 2009. The EU Commission is right to ask Ireland to rectify the situation with Apple and with other corporations, if needs be. Times have changed since the 90s’ and Apple would not have grown and outpaced other corporations if it was not for all this “Indirect Funding”. Many corporations have become financially much stronger than many countries. This just cannot continue and is neither fair nor right. This “Inequality” in treatment, whereby one state within the EU offers better fiscal / funding terms than others to X or Y, has got to stop and this non-sense of the “Comedian-In-Chief” must stop as well (luckily he has only very few weeks left in office). If the leadership of Greece, and I personally have the greatest respect and sympathy to the people of Greece and to Greece itself but none to the leadership, they should have been the first at introducing such schemes in Greece in order to attract investors. I myself gave several examples on PS, one of them was about A. Papandreou who back in the 80s’ offered tax incentives to companies willing to set up business and invest in Greece (Law 89 is one of them). You mentioned Ireland, how about Bulgaria that has taken most businesses from Greece due also to their accommodating laws and tax regimes. In this world it is the rule of the fittest and not only with the look or words but with real and true actions.