22/01/2018 (Agence Europe) – The MEP Pervenche Berès (S&D, France) cannot understand why the member states are planning to take eight countries off the European list of tax havens (see EUROPE 11939). “Among the lucky ones is Panama, the tax jurisdiction against the Panama Papers scandal. It is very hard to understand how a jurisdiction was blacklisted in December has rehabilitated itself in just one month with no real assessment of the progress they have made in the fight against tax fraud or tax evasion”, she said in a press release dated Monday 22 January. She went on to call for the commitments made by the eight countries in question and the 47 others under surveillance (grey list) to be published and examined in great detail. (MB)