Around the world, local news publishers vanished. In the space of 20 years, news publishers saw their share of the advertising market drop from 93 percent to 8.34 percent. Legislators looked the other way and killed media plurality with their laissez-faire approach. Member of the European Parliament Paul Tang argues that we need to ensure […]
Member of the European Parliament in the Socialists and Democrats Group. He is a co-rapporteur on a common corporate tax base and has written a report in which he calls for taxation on digital activities to be included in an EU framework.
Europe must bring the power of the large, often American, online platforms under democratic control. That is the promise made by EU commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton in their Digital Services and Markets Acts published on 15 December. Those proposals do not go as far as the announcement by the US competition authority to […]
Large companies currently have a whole range of opportunities for tax avoidance, to the benefit of a few shareholders and at the expense of many taxpayers.