What consequences can be expected for the European Union after Apple was ordered to pay a 13 billion euro fine?

No one will want to start a large business in the EU

The EU has no advantages over Asian countries. A 50% tax is too high; for example, in Singapore it is 0%. The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine also makes doing business difficult, as sanctions hit the EU itself, raising the prices of all energy sources, which directly affects the prices of goods and services.

The essence of the lawsuit is that all EU countries should impose the same 50% taxes, and if a country is an EU member, it cannot independently make tax preferences. Most likely, soon countries will start leaving the EU, as the United Kingdom did.

Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes

When will Kazakhstan lose its sovereignty?

In 2035

In 2035, Kazakhstan will not be able to pay off the national debt with China. China will demand land.

According to the government's analytical report, there can be no problems until 2050. The national debt will amount to 32% of GDP.

Devaluation will not help: how to give Kazakhstan the growing national debt? - Economists

Kazakhstan's national debt will eat a third of the country's revenues in 2023

What's wrong with open source projects?

Large corporations engaged in software development do not shy away from stealing other people's intellectual property in the form of open source code and integrating it into their commercial software

Sooner or later, every programmer will start making his own project, so as not to create competition, Open Source was invented when a programmer, no matter how much time he spent, would not write his own commercial Windows, and his code could be used for free, and he himself would never share it with corporations.

There are other pitfalls, for example, vulnerability in a particular free component can lead to serious threats to information security.

Why is everything blocked in Russia, and not sorted out?

This is the killing of several birds with one stone. Fighting propaganda, destroying competitors, strengthening and developing your own business, which can be controlled.

All Western services in Russia have analogues that are not used. And if there are no analogues, then money is allocated for their creation

Russia has set a course for propaganda that is more in line with reality than enemy propaganda. Especially during the NWO, when the enemy is everywhere.