Apple CEO Timothy Cook is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Investigations Subcommittee about the company’s offshore profit shifting and tax avoidance in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill yesterday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Kenny travels to Brussels as Ireland labelled a tax haven at US Senate hearing

 Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore: “Ireland does not negotiate special tax-rate deals with any company.” Photograph: Alan Betson

European tax policies and ‘profit shifting’ to feature at EU summit today

Apple chief executive Tim Cook arrives to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Maker of the iPhone and iPad accused of sheltering profits in Irish ‘ghost companies’

Apple chief executive Tim Cook and other company executives, along with US treasury officials, will appear before the Senate subcommittee at a hearing on Capitol Hill today.

US Senate report accuses technology giant of using Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, who received the backing of 80 MEPs from across Europe’s political spectrum – the written support of 40 was required to qualify. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire

Five candidates, including three MEPs, also in running for €248,000 post

France fell back into recession in the first quarter of the year, experiencing a 0.2 per cent contraction in GDP
 in the first three months of the year
, in line with the previous quarter.

GDP fell by 0.2%

France’s President Francois Hollande (left) speaks with Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traore at the Donor Conference  in Brussels. Photograph: Reuters

The European Union pledged an extra €520 million to the north African country over the next two years

François Hollande: much anticipated visit to Brussels coincided with the release of new economic data which showed that France has entered recession for the second time in four years. Laurent Dubrule/Reuters

European Commission urges France to speed up enactment of structural reforms

People in Cyprus continue to face restrictions on the amount of money they are permitted to withdraw from bank accounts. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Europe Letter: diverging views about banking union reflect broader issues for Europe as a whole

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