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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10142
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty

Prospect of first European citizens' initiative on taxation of financial transactions?

Brussels, 19/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - The legislative framework for implementation of the European citizens' initiative - introduced by the Lisbon Treaty - is not yet in place (the Commission draft regulation was discussed in Council end April and the Spanish Presidency hopes to reach a political agreement by end June, EUROPE 10128), but the German and Austrian Social Democrats have already announced their intention to resort to this new instrument to “put pressure on” to bring about...

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