I think the article hints at that, but granted doesn't spell out the whole background. If one's on the receiving end of the local media on the topic, though... ("We're putting 200 billion into the zombie banks, we'll take bailouts from the IMF, the ECB, and -- gasp! -- the former colonial power, we're cutting spending on anything and everything, we're raising income tax, VAT, etc... but at least we're all agreed that we'll keep our beggar-thy-neighbour policies on company tax, even if it pisses off all the people giving us the money!")

On Google specifically, I will grant you that it's crass at best, and fundamentally destructive of any hope at social justice at worse, for multinational corporations to be blatantly holding forth on matters pertaining to local politics in any of their various "host" countries. Or in other words, global capitalism's "business as usual".