On 19 January, the MEPs adopted the position of Parliament's committee on civil liberties and economic and monetary affairs, which in December rejected the blacklist of eleven countries (North Korea, Guiana, Iran, Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iraq, Laos, Syria, Uganda, Vanuatu and Yemen), whose systems to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism present shortcomings that threaten the European financial system.
The fourth anti-money laundering directive, which was...