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Not this side of the border. He's a left-footer in both religious and sexual orientation. The big, gay soup sucker
Confused - he went to St Andrews and High School.
That = left footer south of Monaghan ?!
Not this side of the border. He's a left-footer in both religious and sexual orientation. The big, gay soup sucker
As I said, some people believe that the EU is moving towards tax harmonisation. And you've actually said it yourself in your post.
Well it was an issue between Ireland and the EU. The case has now been dropped since Apple has lodged the money in an escrow account. The Commission's gripe is that Ireland granted Apple unfair tax-breaks, contravening EU law. To be honest I think the Commission may have a point although Apple's dealings with Ireland go back a long way I think. From Wikipedia...
Not the end of the world for the poorer nations. One of my wife's nephews married a bird from Estonia a few months back and the family came back from the wedding aghast at the poverty of the place. And it's not as if Ireland is all that well off although compared to eastern Europe we have it easy. I've said it before, and I'm paraphrasing David McWilliams here, Ireland without the EU would be western Europe's Albania. I'm in my mid-50s and when I was a kid I watched my father ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. A donkey and cart was a common way to transport timber for the fire. Our house had no running water and my first daily chore at the age of 8 was to take a milk churn on a wheelbarrow to a well about 400 m from our gaff and draw water for the household. So you can see why some of us are attached to the EU and would willingly sacrifice a little independence for a bit of prosperity.
That's not the function of the Supreme court. Organisations and countries who have problems with a decision of the European Commission appeal to the ECJ. Apple are taking such a case which means that Ireland doesn't have to.
The EU won't unite Ireland, only the people of Ireland can do that.
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Surprised this hasn’t been picked up yet.
Auld fella was not impressed with local scobes interrupting his flutter.
They show up with a gun and hammers. Yer man had all the NAILS. Last bit is a glorious homage to Father Ted.
Confused - he went to St Andrews and High School.
That = left footer south of Monaghan ?!
Thanks for that. At least we don't descend to ad homs.
My Bold, but that's why it's so important to the EU and misunderstood by the National assemblies. The concept that they will be told what their budgets are, will effectively emasculate their governments. Their Taxes will be collected centrally, there will be no need for central banks. What is left for national Governments to do other than to act as regional councils with limited powers. That will apply to Ireland. I have never agreed with that concept.
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At the Moment AIUI the gripe with the multis is the fact that they are positioning themselves for tax advantage-which I do not believe is banned by EU law and there is no standard tax rate for corporation tax across the EU otherwise, there would be no point in positioning
Lastly the bit about the Poorer nations is in fact the EU's own fault. It didn't Penalise Russia with reparations when West Germany and the east became united, France and the other three, fixated on Germany rather than the the economic consequences of the collapse of the USSR. No wonder Yeltsin was so good to do business with..
Lastly the only way there can be a single currency is without the Pound. That queers the whole pitch which is why Brown had to make it conditional and why it was so wrong to sign Lisbon.
There is no standard tax rate but perhaps there should be.
The commission's problems with Ireland are not the tax rate but its allegation that Ireland gave an unfair tax advantage to Apple that wasn't offered to other companies. If Ireland had offered the same deal to everyone, the Commission would not have had a leg to stand on.
I'm not sure why this is relevant. Germany isn't one of the EU's poor nations. Russia was an economic basket case along the lines of sub-Saharan Africa in the late 80s. Demanding reparation that Russia couldn't pay would have been pointless and counter-productive.
There is already a single currency. Only Denmark and the UK stayed out of the Eurozone. And the UK is leaving the EU now anyway.
I put it in the Youtube video thread.
I love the way he gave the last lad a kick in the árse as he went out the door
But that’s the point, if there is a harmonised rate of tax, there must be a harmonised system of benefits and if Ireland gave an unfair tax advantage to apple, then the EU should have dealt with it. .
In relation to Germany, that’s why we have a Euro, that was France’s terms for Germany to be able to refinance. Russia was skint. This is the mentality we’re talking about. We actually paid Russia off re German reunification. This is also not good for denmark, but eastern states never gave a damn as long as some one was paying.
It is dealing with it.
Again not sure what you're getting at. But a unified Germany and the liberation of eastern Europe from the Soviets is to Europe's advantage. Long term the poor states of eastern Europe will become prosperous as a result of EU membership, as Ireland did.
FFS How much longer will this insidious asset strip of electoral rights take.?
Sorry to say this but have a raspberry. If you are somehow comparing the Unification of Germany with the unification of Ireland, it's totally incomparable. On two levels at least.
(1) you were never totally obliterated by total war
(2) You never had the membership of the EEC foisted on you pretty much by dictat..
If on the other hand you believe that the poorer states in Europe have a fundamental right to be on the same level as the more developed ones,.
I'm surprised Ireland didn't apply to be the 54th state of the USA in 1922..
Now there's democratic for you
What?
I never mentioned a united Ireland. I said a united Germany was good for Europe.
Nobody did. Membership of the EU is entirely voluntary.
Yes I do.
I'd be surprised as well since the US only had 48 states in 1922.
It is. Nobody forced them to join. Their democratically elected governments have agreed to every EU treaty since they joined and nobody's forcing them to stay.
Mornin’
Point one.
What is the point of election in the member states if ultimately the EU dictates what member states do. Remember most people look at it as a trading block.
Point two . the implication was there. Of course a united Germany is good for Europe. It can pay for it.That’s the French plan.
Point three. I’m not talking about the Joining,of the EU I was talking about the formation of the EEC, whose members are defacto members of the EU, but what is getting clearer is that No one is supposed to leave.
Point four. Well it would probably have been more practical if Russia had been forced to pay something or if the sequestrated assets from Russian sanctions were used. Course the EU had the foresight to ask for that.
point five, alright be pedantic
This comes back to subsidiarity and what the EU decides is relevant not the other way round-Lisbon is very loose on thatThe EU can only dictate what its member states allow it dictate. All members are members voluntarily, all its treaties have been agreed and ratified by the member states. In Ireland every treaty was agreed to by referendum. The EU Commissioners are nominated by the elected governments of the member states and their appointments approved by the MEP's elected by each member state and also by the Council of Europe which consists of the Heads of Government of the member states. Nothing happens in the EU without the say-so of the government of the member states who are all democratically elected.
You've lost me. In your last post you appear to be saying that a unified Germany is a bad idea.
It's not complicated at all. The EU want to extract as much as possible for leaving the club. Well it can't as with any club you are only liable for the time they a member. There is also no routemap for A50 which is why the Joining rules are being followed. Flipping nonsense. Northern Ireland is not an issue of ours, it's theirs, it's been reiterated time and againNot just de facto but also de jure. Any member can leave when they want, the UK's leaving is complicated by several issues- Northern Ireland, the GFA, Tory in-fighting, the stupidity of your politicians and the fact that Theresa May is so far out of her depth she looks like a deckchair attendant on the Titanic.
So?IMO forcing Russia to pay reparations for German unification would have had the same effect as that of forcing reparations on Germany post-WW1.
Of course there's also the fact that it wasn't Russia alone that divided Germany after WW2, the US, Britain and France were also involved.
Well I don't know about the Pedants but agricultural labourers are in mine too, and that doesn't mean we're stupidme from a long line of pedants and agricultural labourers