On Monday evening, France pledged that it would be “extremely firm” regarding the concessions requested by Belgium in the framework of the negotiation on a financial transactions tax. For health reasons, the Austrian finance minister, Hans Jörg Schelling, will be unable to attend the meeting this Tuesday 21 February, but it will still go ahead, according to the French finance minister, Michel Sapin.
“Exempting pension funds from the implementation of the FTT would make the system...