I don&#x27;t think you have misunderstood, the linked press release explicitly says that<p>&gt; to restore fair competition, Belgium now has to recover the full unpaid tax from the at least 35 multinational companies that have benefitted<p>I fully agree that this should not happen. If you can&#x27;t rely on the law of those nominally sovereign European countries to actually apply, that&#x27;s very damaging indeed. Not being able to rely on the law as written is one marker of a failed state.