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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, September 11th, and this is your

FD news briefing. Apple is facing some whiplash this week after Europe's top court said it owed a bunch in back taxes.

And Wall Street Banks got a big win yesterday,

plus there's a growing divide between countries over whether to engage with the Taliban.

I remember one quote that a diplomat said to me,

are we going to starve 20 million Afghan women in the name of women's rights.

I'm Kasha Bresayan and here's the news you need to start your day. The European Court of Justice dealt a major blow to Apple on Tuesday.

The ECJ ordered the company to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes.

The ruling said that Apple received unlawful aid from Ireland

through a kind of sweetheart tax deal. The F.T.'s Javier Espinoza has been

following the case from Brussels.

Hey, Javier.

Hello.

So yesterday's ruling actually overturns an earlier decision that went in Apple's favor.

So tell me, what exactly did the ECJ say that Apple did wrong here?

So the case dates back to 2016 when Margaret Vestager, who is the EU's competition commissioner, said that Ireland had giving

apple an illegal sweetheart deal amount into a tax rate of less than 1% and that essentially this was against EU rules that it's not fair

for one company to be getting a preferential tax treatment.

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