The permanent representatives of the member states to the EU (Coreper) will be asked to agree to put a proposal to the finance minister to take eight third countries off the European blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions: Barbados, Grenada, South Korea, Macau, Mongolia, Panama, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (see EUROPE 19019).
This emerges from a document dated 12 January 2018 of which EUROPE has had sight. Once the move has been approved by the Ecofin Council meeting of Tuesday 23 January, these countries will join the "grey list", which is made up of countries that present tax risks, but have undertaken to take corrective measures. The following will therefore remain on the blacklist: Bahrain, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Namibia, Palau, St Lucia, Samoa, American Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago.
This means that the fate of countries recently hit by hurricanes and which still have a few weeks to submit their commitments to the EU has yet to be decided upon. These are Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, the Turks and Caicos and the American Virgin Islands. (Original version in French by Elodie Lamer)