Despite a few dissident voices, MEPs gave a warm welcome on Wednesday 14 September to Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, when she explained to them the European Commission’s state aid decision about Apple in Ireland.
At the end of August, the Commission said that two tax rulings for Apple granted by Dublin in 1991 and 2007 gave the company an unfair advantage (see EUROPE 11612) and ordered repayment of the advantage, worth up to €13 billion plus interest.
Most MEPs welcomed...