BRUSSELS: The European Union is expected to order Apple on Tuesday to pay billions of euros in back taxes in Ireland in one of its largest such cases after ruling that sweetheart tax deals for the US tech giant were illegal.

The bloc’s competition watchdog, Margrethe Vestager, will hold a press conference at 1000 GMT in which sources told Agence France-Presse she is set to announce the European Commission’s findings on the case.

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