Apple Wins Major Tax Battle Against EU over $14.8 billion

Good news! So much for greedy politicians!

This defeat is what the nutty EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager deserves! 

Had Ireland lost this battle with the EU, Ireland would be well advised to consider an exit a la Brexit! 

"The European General Court determined European Commission officials failed to demonstrate that Apple had gained an unfair competitive advantage through the Irish tax laws."

Apple Wins Major Tax Battle Against EU - WSJ The bloc’s second-highest court sided with the tech giant saying it didn’t owe billions to Ireland in unpaid tax

Apple wins $15 billion EU court appeal over Irish tax scheme

European Commission propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops

Crazy European Commission! The march into socialist central planning (to borrow from Joseph Schumpeter)! Ursula Von der Leyen is coming out as a communist commissar!

"More generally [the European Commission] wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold durable goods — in order to make sustainable products the norm."

"To fulfil[l] this ambition, the EU needs to accelerate the transition towards a regenerative growth model that gives back to the planet more than
it takes, advance towards keeping its resource consumption within planetary boundaries, and therefore strive to reduce its consumption
footprint and double its circular material use rate in the coming decade."
Absolutely horrible! The EU Commission is obsessed/fanatic with climate/ environment religion!

"As part of this legislative initiative, and, where appropriate, through complementary legislative proposals, the Commission will consider establishing sustainability principles and other appropriate ways to regulate the following aspects:

• improving product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, addressing the presence

of hazardous chemicals in products, and increasing their energy and resource efficiency;

• increasing recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety;

• enabling remanufacturing and high-quality recycling;

• reducing carbon and environmental footprints;

• restricting single-use and countering premature obsolescence

• introducing a ban on the destruction of unsold durable goods;

• incentivising product-as-a-service or other models where producers keep the ownership of the product or the responsibility for its performance throughout its lifecycle;

• mobilising the potential of digitalisation of product information, including solutions such as digital passports, tagging and watermarks;

• rewarding products based on their different sustainability performance, including by linking high performance levels to incentives"


European lawmakers propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops | TechCrunch: The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. More generally it wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold dura…


Circular Economy Action Plan/For a cleaner and more competitive Europe

EU's new AI rules will focus on ethics and transparency follies

Look at the crazy EU Europeans again! Incompetent Vestager is responsible for digital technology. What a joke! 

The EU Commission plans to shackle AI. The rest of the world will have a good laugh about the nutty and living in a bubble elitist Europeans!

So glad for Brexit! Other European countries should follow the British example!

EU's new AI rules will focus on ethics and transparency | VentureBeat: The EU will propose AI regulations that focus on ethics and transparency in a bid to distance its policies from those of China and the U.S.



Here is another article on this subject:
EU introduces AI strategy to build ‘ecosystem of trust’

"The proposals would lead to changes in the way data is collected and shared in an effort to level the playing field between European companies and competitors from the U.S. and China."
So much wishful thinking hurts! Sounds like Ursula von der Leyen!



Does von der Leyen not look enchanting playing with the red and blue ball in front of a robot!