"I'm surprised that anyone should be surprised". The European Commission's decision to engage in the process regarding the fifteen national company tax systems, considered to be State aid (see yesterday's bulletin, p.11), has deeply displeased a certain number of governments. The day before already, Didier Reynders, President of the EcoFin Council and the Eurogroup, had deployed the large artillery, accusing the Commission of jeopardizing completion of the "tax package" (of which the code of...