AFP Google CEO Sundar Pichai hit back on Sunday at accusations that the global internet giant failed to pay enough taxes in Europe, and warned of the potential fallout from Britain leaving the EU. As Google faces a raft of fiscal probes across the continent, Pichai told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the US company invested “very heavily” ...

  AFP Portuguese Finance Minister Mario Centeno pinned his colours to the mast, donning a green and red scarf as his countrymen lifted the European Championship trophy. EU colleagues in Brussels congratulated him as he lauded the Seleccao’s final win over tournament hosts France in Paris. But the Lisbon government had two reasons to celebrate — not just a maiden ...

  France is in the line of fire. Of the 16 terrorist incidents that took place in Western nations this year, five were in France, including the deadliest one — Thursday’s apparent lone wolf attack in Nice, which killed at least 84 people. A little more than a week before the attack, a commission set up by the French parliament ...