*press ahead = 強行する、敢行する、

Some also worry (but tend not to talk publicly) about repelling investors. Low-tax Ireland, currently favoured by tech firms, would be an estimated 160m euros a year worse off if the EU pressed ahead.

Digital taxation - A tech-taxing tangle The Economist Dec. 8th 2018 ハイテク企業に対する課税政策

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