Brussels, 12/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - France and Germany have welcomed the commitment from the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers to give consideration to various proposals on new ways of raising finance, including the possibility of a worldwide tax on financial transactions, as, indeed, was called for by the European Council on 17 June (see EUROPE 10163 and 10162).
French and German Finance Ministers Christine Lagarde and Wolfgang Schäuble recently wrote to Didier...