11/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - Accusations levelled in France against Luxembourg. On Friday 11 April, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship and Vice-president the European Commission Viviane Reding slammed the accusations levelled in France by the deputy leader of the UMP party, Laurent Wauquiez, against her country - Luxembourg. The accusations described Luxembourg as a “tax haven” and “an artificial country”. “It is absolutely undeniable that, compared with the economic and financial difficulties of Laurent Wauquiez's country, Luxembourg is a haven of stability”, Reding said ironically in a statement quoted by French news agency AFP. Reding, a member of the European People's Party (EPP) to which Wauquiez's UMP party also belongs, deplored the rhetoric of exclusion used by the former minister of European affairs in his public speeches to promote his latest publication on how everything must be changed in Europe. (LC)