EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager at EU HQ in August, 2016 says that Ireland must now recover the unpaid back taxes from Apple, plus interest. Associated Press/Virginia Mayo. All rights reserved.
Rosemary Bechler (RB): Joseph Stiglitz speaking on the BBC Today programme after yourself, said that the European Commissioner’s three years of research into Apple’s dealings in Ireland had shone a light on the dark side of globalisation, and that the deal exemplified a kind of ‘moral depravity’ – would you go that far?
Molly Scott Cato MEP (MSC): I’m not too interested in the morality: that’s a different perspective on things. I certainly agree that this is effectively what happens when transnational corporations operate beyond local control, and that that is the result of globalisation.
