> Surely an EU company, if big enough, could have moved to Ireland and negotiated a similar deal.
yeah but "negotiate" is not how this is supposed to be, because it creates a non-level playing field. If I planned to move my single-person enterprise to Ireland I should be able to get the same deal as Apple did without having friends in the government.
One can argue that countries should be able to do this, but EU countries have agreed not to do it.
yeah but "negotiate" is not how this is supposed to be, because it creates a non-level playing field. If I planned to move my single-person enterprise to Ireland I should be able to get the same deal as Apple did without having friends in the government.
One can argue that countries should be able to do this, but EU countries have agreed not to do it.