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  • Welcome to FirstFT here. Today's top stories

  • A three-year investigation of Ireland's tax treatment of Apple is ending with a bill for billions of Euros and back taxes for the tech group

  • A 130-page judgment from the European Commission says that decisions made by authorities in Dublin violated EU law by granting Apple an advantage not available to other companies

  • The judgment underlines the European Commission's push to redraw the boundaries on aggressive tax avoidance by the world's biggest corporations

  • Poland has become the latest country to try to woo some of Britain's biggest banks in the wake of the Brexit vote

  • The Polish Deputy Prime Minister will arrive in London this week, armed with a package of incentives to lure city institutions to Warsaw

  • And an analysis by the Guardian newspaper shows that the UN paid tens of millions of dollars in UN contracts to people with close ties to Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad

  • The findings reveal the UN paid at least four million dollars to a state-owned fuel supplier that also appeared on an EU sanctions list

  • For more of today's top stories, go to FT.com/firstFT

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