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British pound slips from six-week highs before EU summit
September 19th, 2018
The British pound pulled back from six-week highs on Tuesday as traders booked profits and investors struck a more cautious note about progress towards a Brexit deal ahead of a European Union summit this week. Sterling has rallied around ...
Positions, problems and prospects of EU ‘digital tax’ proposal
September 14th, 2018
Explained: The EU ‘Digital Tax’ Scramble EU finance ministers met last weekend for the fourth time this year to agree on a tax levy targeting large digital multinationals such as Apple, Facebook and Google – yet the political battle ...
EU finance ministers to discuss proposals to adopt a tax on companies’ digital turnover
September 6th, 2018
European Union finance ministers will this week discuss proposals to adopt a tax on companies’ digital turnover by the end of the year, a document prepared by the Austrian presidency of the bloc said. EU governments agree that tax ...
Investors claim they lost €4.1m in Binary Options scam
September 3rd, 2018
A group of investors who claim they lost millions of euro in an electronic trading scam have brought a High Court damages action against an Irish-registered firm and Irish- and Israeli-based directors. They have sued Greymountain Management Ltd, which ...
Is your country expensive?
August 27th, 2018
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg, has releases a statistics report in relation to the price levels of products and services in European countries. Price levels for consumer goods and services differ widely among ...
Nestlé lost a 16-year legal fight to dominate the chocolate bar market
July 30th, 2018
KitKat’s makers have suffered a major setback in its 16-year quest to dominate the market for four-fingered chocolate bars. Nestlé applied to trademark the distinctive trapezoid shape of KitKats in 2002, and initially succeeded. Nestlé has been fighting to ...
Will be a corporate tax harmonisation among EU member states?
July 27th, 2018
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday he wanted to get other EU countries to sign up to a Franco-German proposal to harmonise corporate tax rules by mid 2019. Le Maire and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz ...
How many people work for the government in your country?
July 25th, 2018
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has recently issued a report showing the percentage of people in European countries working in the government sector. According the report, government employment accounted for 16 % of employment in the ...
17 EU countries warned for failing to implement cybersecurity law
July 24th, 2018
The European Commission has sent warnings to 17 EU countries for failing to implement cybersecurity law, after missing a May 9 deadline. The European Commission has issued warnings to seventeen European Union countries because the countries involved missed a ...
Irish companies to pay a multi-million dollar penalty for illegally trading Binary Options
July 20th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on July 5, 2018, Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an Opinion and Order (Order) against Defendants Intrade The Prediction Market ...