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...specific disadvantage on operators desirous of moving or establishing themselves within the Community." While the full Court of Justice won't issue a final opinion before the fall, governments are quaking over the ruling's potential effects. "This is pretty strong stuff," says Fred de Hosson, a tax partner at Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam. "It's another wake-up call for member states" to bring their tax systems closer in line. But it's a wake-up call that could have been anticipated. Tax has long been the odd man out of European integration. While E.U. states have largely coordinated...
...ruling, dozens of big companies including BT Group, French bank BNP Paribas and U.S. machinery firm Caterpillar have filed for tax relief in Britain using the same criteria as Marks & Spencer. "This potentially opens the floodgates for claims over the past six years," says Michael Hardwick, a corporate tax partner at Linklaters in London. Simon Whitehead of solicitors Dorsey & Whitney, which is representing Marks & Spencer, says that 70 multinational firms have already signed up for a group action that his law firm is organizing. He won't detail the total amount of claims they are seeking but says the advocate...
...province, since stepping down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party. The European Union imposed a diplomatic boycott on Austria because of the FPO's extreme views; Haider has restrictive immigration policies and once called SS veterans "men of honor." Still, the coalition went ahead, and Austria gradually resumed...
...namesake Princess Ida (Lisa D. Lareau ’06) in her battle against patriarchy and the masculine world. Engaged from infancy to Prince Hilarion (Pedro K. Kaawaloa Jr. ’05), a 20-year-old Ida chooses to forsake the safety of her relationship with her male partner and instead cloisters herself within a female university, where she abandons all things male...
...first of the three stories stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a detective forced into early retirement by a heart condition—which his slimy partner, played by Michael Madsen, calls a “bum ticker” in true noir-cheese style. Hartigan has given up his whole life to save a young girl (the adult version of whom is played stiffly by the beautiful Jessica Alba) from the serial-killing son of a powerful senator...