Commissioner Michael McGrath is championing EU Inc, a new framework to help companies scale, but MEPs have reservations about what it will mean for worker representation.
EU Inc, the new Europe-wide company registration, is a top priority for McGrath and the EU’s competitiveness agenda. The commissioner is pushing a tight timeline to get it done, reports Jonathan Keane in Strasbourg.
EU Inc – a bloc-wide company registration – is touted as a way to rev up European tech start-ups. MEPs meanwhile are trying to figure out how the whole thing will be taxed.
A year into the job, Commissioner Michael McGrath discusses plans to bolster EU competitiveness, including new details of the upcoming bloc-wide 28th regime for companies. He also restates Europe's unwavering support for Ukraine.
The Taoiseach targets business simplification, “a bigger budget”, and enlargement during Ireland’s leadership of the Council of the EU in the second half of next year. He has a Brussels ally in party colleague and Commissioner Michael McGrath.
Commissioner Michael McGrath is spearheading new measures to preserve democracy against AI threats. The US administration and big tech won’t take a new slate of rules lying down.
The EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath wants tougher powers to investigate Chinese e-commerce giants and will propose reforms to give the EU executive greater powers to probe companies like Shein and Temu.
The EU justice commissioner said he plans to raise the issue of product safety and standards on platforms like Shein and Temu with the Chinese authorities.
Changes to Apple’s tax structure have skewed short-term Exchequer figures for three years but multinationals are again lining up large taxable profits in Ireland in 2024.
The remarkable turnaround in Ireland’s economy over the past decade has been built on the back of a small cohort of multinationals. However, the better they do, the more pressure will come on Ireland.
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