On the evening of Monday 27 February, there were no real surprises during the first exchange of views held by the committee on economic and monetary affairs of the European Parliament on the draft Bayet-Regner report on public country-by-country reporting.
The Social Democrat MEPs tasked with drafting the dossier, Belgium's Hugues Bayet and Evelyn Regner of Austria, went as far as possible in the draft report (see EUROPE 11715). The points which were the subject of a debate were those...