Brussels, 18/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - Issuing a paper on an idea mooted on several occasions by its members (Sharon Bowles, for example, at the Fifth Energy Forum in Brussels recently, see EUROPE 10346), the Party of European Socialists (PES) called on 14 April for the introduction of a tax on financial transactions (FTT) in the EU in 2013 of 0.05% on all financial transactions. The PES says such a tax could net €200 billion a year and “is the only instrument available to use which can...