Discussion about the EU Commissions approach on State Aid with Karl Soukup, Director in DG Competition of the European Commission responsible for State Aid Control

The recent state aid investigations and decisions into tax arrangements of several US multinationals, namely the decisions against Apple/Ireland, Starbucks/Netherlands, and the pending investigations concerning Amazon/ Luxembourg and McDonalds/Luxembourg have raised a lot of questions and concern here in the US.

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On November 18, 2016, Mr Soukup joined a group of invited guests of the European American Chamber of Commerce  to explain the Commission’s approach and answer questions from the audience.