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Well they're not trying to screw over the rest of Europe. They're just gaining a competitive advantage by offering favorable deals. Its something that countries have been doing for much of their existence. To claim their screwing over the rest of Europe is just anti-competitive nonsense. The Netherlands does the same stuff just not as successfully

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> The Netherlands does the same stuff just not as successfully

Well, that's absolutely not orthogonal to the "screwing over Europe" statement. That simply makes two countries trying to gain an unfair competitive advantage.

Nicely hypocritical from the Netherlands by the way, as they are always the ones on their high horses complaining about the financial laxness of the southern and eastern European countries, while at the same time draining them of tax revenues through such constructs.

Regarding the Netherlands, It looked like they where working and making good progress of dismantling this system. But in the end it was all a façade and feet dragging... Now I just hope that with our current government it wont get worse.

But hey, we voted for these muppets. So if the EU again fines us we deserve it.

> Now I just hope that with our current government it wont get worse.

Hope dies last! Let's see how long the current government holds. And hope the replacement would be better...

Yeah no, there's a very big difference between being a country all by itself and being a part of the EU. If you want to be in the EU, you have to play by its rules, that's a part of the deal. You can't only get the upsides of the shared market, but not follow the rest of the rulebook that actually make the whole thing work.

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