Sunday Interview: "There is no interest for anybody to look like a tax haven"

The EU’s Economics Commissioner has major corporate tax avoiders in his sights

Pierre Moscovici Picture: Saul Loeb/Getty

CV: Pierre Moscovici

Age:58

Place of residence: Brussels and Paris

Family: Married, no children

Favourite book: Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo

Hobbies: cinema, literature, chess

The tenth floor of the Berlaymont building in Brussels must be the stuff of nightmares for Irish tax planners.

The featureless corridor opens into offices with an expansive view of the Belgian capital. In many of these sit members of the cabinet of Margrethe Vestager, the competition commissioner who ...