Brussels, 07/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - At their ECOFIN Council meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 7 December 2010, the EU27 finance ministers made a great step forwards by sealing agreement in principle after months of talks on a draft EU directive to step up administrative cooperation on direct taxation issues.
At a press conference, the chair of the ECOFIN Council, Didier Reynders of Belgium, said that this was an important step in tackling fraud and consolidating the budget because most EU...