On behalf of the Presidency of the Council of the EU, Maltese finance minister Edward Scicluna opened the informal meeting of economic and finance ministers on Saturday 8 April stressing that his document on fiscal certainty was not a sign to halt EU initiatives or the programme to tackle tax avoidance.
As we explained at the start of the week, in order to serve as a framework for the discussion (see EUROPE 11760), the Presidency said in a working document that the rapid succession of fiscal...