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Gabriel Sincu The Romanian economy has a great need for new investments to fulfil its huge growth potential. Whether direct or indirect, foreign or domestic, private or public, investments are key elements in the race to recover the economic gap existing between Romania and the western European countries. With this in mind, the Romanian authorities introduced in 2014 two sets of rules with the clear goal of increasing investment levels and making the country more attractive for new and existing players in the economy.

Aleksandra Rafailovic On September 1 2014, the Law on Public Notary came into effect in Serbia. This law was already passed in 2011, but it was postponed twice because of low levels of interest from candidates in taking the exam for this title. As part of the legal and judicial reform programme in Serbia, some of the main reasons for introducing notaries were the need for administrative relief of courts, increase efficiency and greater legal certainty for citizens.

Hans Rudolf Habermache

Jelena Zivkovic The Montenegrin government announced a public tender for the sale of 50.75% of share capital of the state-owned arms company Poliex from Berane. The tender was announced in line with the privatisation programme adopted by the Privatisation Council of the Montenegro Government. Poliex is a joint stock company with capital of €2.2 million ($2.7 million) and 389,751 ordinary shares with a nominal value of €5.68 per share.

Tax justice campaign group

EU competition commissioner

HMRC's tax assurance commissioner and second permanent secretary

US deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs

These are turbulent times in Europe. State aid investigations over unfair tax competition rumble on, meaning uncertainty lingers over company arrangements and national policies alike. And as the volume of LuxLeaks data is sifted through, more and more corporate taxpayers fear being drawn into this net. In her first public comments on the investigations, Margrethe Vestager, the new European Competition Commissioner, this month suggested there are doubts over the legality of Apple's tax deals with Ireland.

ECJ judgement