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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11555
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) state aid

Commission to reach decision on Amazon soon

Brussels 20/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission may reach a decision before July to order Luxembourg to recover nearly €400 million from Amazon in illegal state aid granted under a tax ruling, the news agency Reuters reported on Friday 20 May.

The Commission made its objections known in January 2015. At the time, the Commission said that it was questioning the selective advantage available to an American multinational company as a result of the methodology used to calculate...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) JHA: Political agreement at Council on mechanism to suspend visa-free regimes
(AE) JHA: Greece may consider Turkey a safe third country, says Council
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission planning to relax television advertising rules
(AE) CLIMATE: Natural gas vehicles can help the EU achieve its 2030 targets ahead of time, says NGVA Europe
(AE) CLIMATE: Emissions from ETS installations fell by just 0.4% in 2015
(AE) ENERGY: Agreement in principle at Council for Commission's ex-ante assessment of IGAs with third countries in field of gas
(AE) ENERGY: Sefcovic wants to set cooperation with Uzbekistan in stone
(AE) ENERGY: Council rubber-stamps rules on electricity network codes
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Trade secrets, French members of S&D group at EP concerned about translation betraying spirit of the law
(AE) ANIMAL HEALTH: MEPs encourage vaccination against salmonellosis
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Delegated act on public intervention and private storage
(AE) AGRICULTURE: EU agri-food exports continue to rise
(AE) AGRICULTURE: No exceptional measures for sugar
(AE) AGRICULTURE: State aid - seven countries suffer from cold weather in April
(AE) AGRICULTURE: EU guidelines for G20 in China on 3 June
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) STATE AID: Commission to reach decision on Amazon soon
(AE) TAXATION: VAT on feminine hygiene products - States to call on Commission to satisfy London
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) TURKEY: EU concerned at law on removing parliamentary immunity
(AE) IRAN: Europeans and Americans encourage trade relations with Iran
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS: EUNAVFOR Med Sophia, Syria/Iraq/Da'esh strategy and migration on Council menu
(AE) BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Brok says much remains to be done for Sarajevo to obtain candidate status in 2017
(AE) HUMANITARIAN AID: Global partnership needed to prevent and heal crises effectively
(AE) TRADE: EU appeals WTO verdict on Argentine biodiesel
(AE) MERCOSUR: Uruguay to coordinate South American position in free trade negotiations for second half of year
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