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We reaffirm our firm commitment to the principles of international law and the rules-based order everywhere in the world.
I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.
The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.
Apple + Microsoft + Eli Lilly paid 46% of all corporate tax to Ireland in 2024
See note from the Ireland's Fiscal Advisory Council.
- www.fiscalcouncil.ie/new-council-...
- www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...
US Border Patrol admits using Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data to track people's movements.
The failure to enforce against the RTB data breach at the heart of online advertising is very, very dangerous.
Big scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co!
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
And @alankellytipp.bsky.social has a point here www.rte.ie/news/politic...
I'm literally in tears listening to President Catherine Connolly's fierce speech about the silence about ongoing genocide, how the rule of law, humans rights, civil liberties, and freedoms are diminishing before our eyes... at the 50th anniversary of the @iccl.bsky.social
Temu booked €1.7B in Europe through Dublin. But what about tax? Documents indicate that the "Double Irish" is back.
The Irish State claims ignorance.
Clip - See exchange in the Irish Parliament yesterday between Sinéad Gibney and Minister Jack Chambers.
This idea is gathering some support - see @martinsandbu.ft.com in the FT today www.ft.com/content/b92f...
I warned about this in 2020 when I was at Brave, a Google competitor
brave.com/blog/competi...
Even more worrying if he didn’t know!
This should torpedo the competitiveness argument. Draghi did not know this, but now we do: it hurts small firms because it is not applied to big firms.
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.
Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is responsible for protecting people across the EU because tech firms put their HQ offices in Ireland.
DPC admitted today that it hasn't finished a single Google investigation since the GDPR was introduced.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking
Well done to her for asking it.
Hundreds of "amicable resolutions" but no actual Article 60 final decisions at all.
The European Commission should be examining Ireland not just on tax but on data and child safety online.
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.
Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
And mu submission for “democracy shield” is about this www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
Switch recommender algorithms off
They should not be on anyway, per GDPR Art 9 and AI Act Art 5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan
My piece in The Guardian this morning: Europe’s path to technological independence from the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"the Commission recalls that as far as the dominant position of IBM in the European market is concerned ... will be vigilant to ensure that there is no use of such a dominant position"
From 1974
aei.pitt.edu/97739/1/1974...
Boom!
EU Leaders meet tomorrow to discuss measures to lift Europe's anaemic growth rate. But the summit risks turning into a nothing burger.
EU Leaders have cherry-picked a macroeconomically meaningless simplification agenda from the Draghi report
New oped.
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www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Even if one thinks nothing will change for Ireland, it would be irresponsible to not plan for the prospects that it will.
Ireland’s upcoming EU Council presidency (July - December) should focus on these questions. But the it is unlikely to do so. It is too easy to ignore these challenges in the short term and allow them to become crises.
This (missing) national planning exercise is the mirror to the EU Council debate about fixing the fragmentation of Europe’s services market and capital market to allow EU growth, stimulate domestic consumption rather than export growth, and compete with U.S., China.
