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– Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
Story of the week: The European Commission suffered another major defeat in its antitrust charges against Big Tech. The General Court of the European Union has dismissed the case against Amazon, which the EU executive accused of having received a special tax treatment from Luxembourg. The verdict is similar to another major antitrust case that concerned Apple and the Republic of Ireland. In both cases the court ruled that the Commission did not provide a sufficient legal basis for proving that the tax deal could be considered as state aid. The result of these legal proceedings raises doubts about whether the Commission’s antitrust investigations have teeth, and falls within a broader discussion on taxing web services. Listen to the podcast for more.
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Baltic states prepare to leave Russian electricity network, join European one. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all currently part of the Russian electricity network since gaining independence in the early 90s, are set to join the Continental Europe electricity network in early 2026, meaning they will soon be leaving the Russian one. Read more.
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Kyriakides: Lifting patents is not way forward to produce more vaccines. Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Tuesday (13 April) acknowledged the need to accelerate production of COVID-19 vaccines but stressed that lifting patents is not a way forward and that other options are under consideration. Read the full story.
Kremlinology has always been a very difficult and inexact science. It is not easy to figure out the real aims, the real motivations, the real power balance, formerly in the Soviet Union, and now in Putin’s Russia. Moscow’s interest should be in fixing its economy and in having decent relations with the rest of the world, precisely for that purpose. But Putin is doing exactly the opposite.
Does Russia need more territory? It already has more than it can control. Is Ukraine a threat for Russia? Hardly. Ukraine doesn’t want Russian territory, it wants control of its own, and there is (or was) an international diplomatic format, the Normandy talks, which should, in principle, achieve this goal.
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