I never claimed they didn't, whilst I can't find the daily fines amount for IE, here is what the EU dished out to MS for an issue with Media Player "On 12 July 2006, the EU fined Microsoft for an additional €280.5 million (US$448.58 million), €1.5 million (US$2.39 million) per day from 16 December 2005 to 20 June 2006. The EU threatened to increase the fine to €3 million ($4.81 million) per day on 31 July 2006 if Microsoft did not comply by then."
European companies have grown up with the beast and know how to work around it, and so many companies offer top politicians advisory board positions, well in the UK at least, although these have to be declared
no most UK call centers have already gone overseas, unlike in the US, all of Vodafone retail division, including it's store are owned by Vodafone, the UK hasn't gone down the franchise route in the High Street, which has caused an interesting learning curve for me living in NZ where so much is franchised. So Vodafone would still leave a local marketing/sale division and require the retail management division which would also still employ maintenance contractors for the stores and offices
This is true, but both those countries should never of been allowed into the Euro zone due to the financial issues they both had beforehand, Italy was always my favourite in the 80's, seeing how long before they would devalue their currency, it was just great, knowing if you were holidaying in Italy you would be a millionaire and double digit inflation seemed to be the norm
Most of the jobs that can be offshored have been already, so if they left they would take some head office staff with them and the company profits as some local management would still be left behind to run the UK operation being Vodafone normally sit at 1st or 2nd in the UK mobile business.
Isn't that an issue all countries have at present, especially in Europe where they still believe in looking after those who can no longer help themselves, although I will exclude Greece and Italy from that as they have long been the butt of jokes about corruption at all levels, although so many countries are currently in a better state than they were in the 50's, yet the stock markets want them to be doing better as investors had got used to a period of prolonged prosperity, but all good things come to an end
Perhaps because I did not know small business' are classified as corporations, and the initial comment mentioned the US, I read this to refer to major corporations such as Disney, Intel, Apple etc, in the same way that Vodafone have been avoiding a tax bill of £14,000,000,000 in the UK and let off by the tax man for the fear they may go overseas.
Whereas we keep seeing small to medium firms the world over going under, perhaps a few more countries could take a leaf from France's book where the wealthy and large corporations have volunteered to pay extra tax for a couple of year to help France back on it feet, this includes the likes of Total, so we are talking some global players here.
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RE: Is this what they mean by a Welfare State?
I never claimed they didn't, whilst I can't find the daily fines amount for IE, here is what the EU dished out to MS for an issue with Media Player"On 12 July 2006, the EU fined Microsoft for an additional €280.5 million (US$448.58 million), €1.5 million (US$2.39 million) per day from 16 December 2005 to 20 June 2006. The EU threatened to increase the fine to €3 million ($4.81 million) per day on 31 July 2006 if Microsoft did not comply by then."