On: Shouting ‘pay your taxes,’ activists occupy Apple retail stores across France

[kemiller]

The French were primary architects of the EU. It's a bit rich to complain now that Ireland and Apple are taking advantage of its rules.

[kalleboo → kemiller]

The EU was created as a democratic institution, it's not strange at all to protest its laws, how they're implemented, or how they're followed.

[gaius → kalleboo]

I don't think anyone democratically voted for enshrining tax arbitrage across the bloc - this is the Irish government, a massive recipient of EU subsidies, gaming the system.

[dandermotj → kemiller]

As an Irish and European person, I want you to know that your comment is misinformed and misleading. Global tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals has no relation to the formation of the EU, and the Irish government are at a gigantic economic loss (not advantage) as a result.