Brussels, 09/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - Having missed the December 2014 deadline, the best the eleven countries involved in the enhanced cooperation mechanism to introduce a financial transactions tax (FTT) could do was to repeat their commitment to work hard to reach agreement early in 2015 on the first application of the tax.
On behalf of the Italian Presidency, Italy's finance minister Pier Carlo Padoan encouraged Latvia “to continue working on this issue in 2015”. On behalf of the...