Bankers’ bonuses were back on the agenda in Brussels today, as the UK’s chancellor George Osborne told his European “colleagues” he would not support the EU’s plans for a cap on payments. To his detractors, of which he has many, Osborne’s stance will be seen as yet another attempt by the Conservative-led government to protect [...]
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Horses for Three Courses
Bored of the usual rows over budgets, debt and national sovereignty, Britain and it’s European partners are involved in quickly escalating row of the more bizarre kind at the moment. That of the under-the-radar use of horse meat. As things stand this morning, the bigger hitters on the continent have decided to make Romania the fall [...]
Google Uses Bermuda No-Tax Shelter, Revenues Soar to $10 Billion
IT LOOKS like Google may run smack into the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission, which is reportedly looking into blacklisting companies that go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes. That’s exactly what Google has done. A Bloomberg report lays out the trouble Google is running into across Europe, as countries there look [...]
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