09/12/2016 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 8 December, the European Parliament’s civil liberties and economic and monetary affairs committee voted by a wide majority in favour of a resolution rejecting the black list of eleven countries (North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Guyana, Iraq, Laos, Syria, Uganda, Vanuatu and Yemen) because their measures to tackle money-laundering and the financing of terrorism include loopholes that threaten the European financial system. They rejected the list by 47 to 8 with 25 abstentions, feeling it to be too restrictive. One of the rapporteurs on the resolution, Judith Sargentini (Greens/EFA, The Netherlands), said the list doesn’t mention non-cooperative jurisdictions fiscally and doesn’t take account of the Panama Papers revelations. The resolution will be put to a vote at Parliament's plenary in January. (EL)