Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What does the Commissioner say to the allegation made that the European Commission, having no responsibility for taxation in sovereign member states, is seeking by a circuitous route to take control of taxation?

The Commissioner mentioned that the US Senate committee was the first occasion on which this particular occasion arose. That was not the case. The same situation was raised by authorities in the Netherlands and France in 2009, 2010 and 2011, wherein it was attempted to blame the double-Irish taxation system and the 12.5% profits tax for the undermining of the European economy and the euro. The former French President, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, was leading in that particular situation.