The question of the legal base for the proposed public country-by-country reporting will be left to one side by the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, which will instead pursue discussions on the provisions proper of the legislative text.
The proposed public country-by-country reporting, which was put forward in April of last year under pressure from civil society, has made many enemies. At a meeting between member states at working group level on Wednesday 29 March, Cyprus,...