The Athens SE has seen the destruction of many a
saving account. It used to be that the Greek
government used the ASE to rob its own
citizens.
Now , with the crisis, the only value left there is
in Starvation Derivatives with Goldman.
check this: Swiss
info
Coca
Cola found Switzerland more attractive than Greece
by
Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch
In
happier times, the relocation of a Greek-based Coca Cola subsidiary to Zug
would have been met with unreserved Swiss joy. But the move in mid-October
actually masks a deep crisis unfolding in Swiss cantons.
A
showdown with the European Union over corporate tax breaks now has cantons at
each other’s throats, with billions of francs of annual revenues at stake. On
the line is also Switzerland’s reputation as a tax haven for multinationals.
Waiting
on the sidelines are thousands of foreign holding firms that benefit from
cantonal tax breaks on profits earned outside of Switzerland. The EU wants
these financial perks, which tax domestic and foreign profits at different
rates, to end, and the cantons fear a company exodus.
“There
is an emerging understanding that these discriminations have to be renounced,”
Thomas Cottier, a professor of international tax law at Bern University, told
swissinfo.ch. “The alternative would almost certainly be to face retaliatory
measures from the EU.”
