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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10543

1 February 2012
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) taxation
FTT still divides Paris and London

Brussels, 31/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - The United Kingdom remains unequivocally opposed to taxing financial transactions. UK Prime Minister David Cameron again made this clear on the sidelines of the informal summit of EU heads of state and government in Brussels on Monday 30 January. He described as unbelievable the decision by French President Nicolas Sarkozy unilaterally to put in place just such a tax in France, “when we are fighting for jobs and growth”. He added that, in a healthy...

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