EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen

As long as there is a conditional, I won't think so.

This was supposed to be solved by the global minimum corporate tax, which the US withdrew from.

They should make tariffs for them, like trade goods, just for data collection from EU citizens or people living in EU. You can not escape that.

Oh ha! I completely misinterpreted your comment, sorry about that 😆

Which is embarrassing, yes.

Isn't this article literally about Von der Leyen using it as a bargaining chip?

Well they are taxed, just not enough. That's mostly because Ireland is borderline a tax heaven so US companies just base themselves there.

The fact we don‘t and use it as a bargain chip instead is Actually quite embarrassing.

Uh, big tech should be taxed by default. We're only in this mess because they elected the cheeto...

Or just do that anyway for fucks sake?

The same as macron said that france COULD recognize Palestine. We all know it technically could, we would like to know why it doesn’t already.

How to get on the news without doing anything.

I hope they fail then.

The level of intrusion and power on internal EU affairs the platforms have is immense and getting rid of it would arguably compensate for any losses, especially when we have the rest of the world willing to talk to us.

“If”

It seems that she finally grows a backbone