Brussels, 06/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 6 February, the European Commission asked the member states to give it a negotiating mandate for administrative cooperation agreements with Russia and Norway in order to establish a cross-border mutual aid scheme for tackling VAT fraud (particularly the online sale of goods and services) so that each country can recover the VAT owed to them. The idea is to extend to Russia and Norway the measures already in place in the EU under the...