> Oh, come on... you know that there are many forces working in opposite directions in the EU parliament and commission. Of course there are. What I'm saying

> Oh, come on... you know that there are many forces working in opposite directions in the EU parliament and commission. Of course there are. What I'm saying is that it particularly seems to be parties of the political left, for instance Labour in the UK, who are both pro-EU and against the very essence of EU with their nationalist and protectionist economic rhetoric. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are more skeptical of EU in general but more for free trade. It's similar in other countries. > Tax avoidance != tax fraud (or fiscal fraud) Quite. I don't think anyone has caught Google or other big companies of large-scale tax fraud. There are of course always some small differences of opinion on how some status should be interpreted, but by and large the way the corporations work has been found to be in compliance with law. Large figures of "tax gap" are published but based on fantasy.