[DominikR]

> As the irish figured out, arbitrarily low corporate taxes are just not possible in the EU.

Well but sorry, you are wrong here. The Irish selectively made deals with companies, that was ruled illegal. Not having low taxes, which works great in case of Malta. (5% tax for foreign investors)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leesheppard/2016/09/05/the-eu-ca...

> Last but not least, the EU could just take the stance that the continued announcements of the legal government to invoke article 50 constitute sufficient grounds to start the proceedings.

I suspect more countries would leave the EU if it did something highly illegal like that, but can't be ruled out. The EU is like the Soviet Union so criminality is part of its nature.

[tremon]

So sad. If you had left out your last sentence, you could have actually made a valuable contribution to this discussion.