At the risk of being wrong, what Google (and others) have been doing in France, here in the UK etc, is legal - I believe under EU law. The governments probably

At the risk of being wrong, what Google (and others) have been doing in France, here in the UK etc, is legal - I believe under EU law. The governments probably can't do much, but some people are a bit annoyed about their ridiculously low tax contributions. Perhaps they've gone further in France than they did here though.