The member states of the EU have not yet agreed on a raft of criteria to label a country a tax haven, but have achieved an embryonic compromise.
The finance ministers are expected to go to work on the dossier on 21 February and a number of delegations are insisting that everything be finalised at technical level before then.
Readers may recall that the discussions of the 'Corporate Taxation Code of Conduct' group of the Council have been struggling for several weeks over the reference to a...