It was with the greatest possible diplomacy that the member states wrote to the 92 jurisdictions to be the subject of tax screening to inform them of the launch of the process.
Basically, these letters stressed several times that this screening is absolutely without prejudice to the future list of tax havens. The letters, which have been sent to the ambassadors of the countries concerned in Brussels, stress that the "selection of jurisdictions for the 2017 screening process was based on a...