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Tempted by an Apple: Europe’s Fall from Grace on Retroactive Taxation

Joanna Diane Caytas JD Candidate, Columbia Law School 2017 The post-2008 public debt crisis alerted the Eurozone – and Europe as a whole – to its dangerous love affair with the outdated notion that states cannot go bankrupt and therefore can take on quasi-unlimited levels of debt. Greece and Cyprus called this bluff in 2012-13 with dramatic consequences. Ever since, the continent has been in search of ways and means to bring under control unsustainable levels of sovereign borrowings that cannot be passed on to the banking and financial sector without laying the foundation for equally expensive bailouts. Just as […]


Shopping for a Case: Initial Reactions to the Commission’s Google Announcement

Alex Weaver J.D. Candidate, Columbia Law School, 2016 Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of European Law After five years of formal investigation, the European Commission announced today that it has sent a Statement of Objections to Google concerning its means of promoting Google Shopping results. The allegation derives from Google’s giant footprint in general online search, boasting a more than 90% market share.[1] By using this position to systemically favor its own comparison shopping service, Google, says the Commission, may be in violation of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This Article prohibits the abuse of […]