Twelve European finance ministers took advantage of a closed-door debate on Tuesday 6 December to call on the European Commission to change the legal basis for country-by-country public reporting.
This was revealed by Taxation Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, but he didn’t say which countries or how many were involved, speaking at a hearing at the Panama Papers investigation committee on Wednesday 7 December.
Sweden launched the debate over breakfast at the ECOFIN Council on Tuesday. Its...