Welcome back to Global Glance. This week we look at Apple begging in Brussels; swearing in the US and the UK; and a cleric's declaration that chess is the work of the devil.
Big developments are afoot in the world of international tax. Ireland has announced that it will end the “Double Irish,” the tax loophole that’s allowed multinationals to organize their affairs in such a way that they pay very low effective tax rates — sometimes as low as 2 percent.