The Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU has declined a further invitation to present its priorities to the special 'TAX 3' committee of the European Parliament on financial crimes, fraud and evasion, at a hearing scheduled for 25 June.
The reasons given are broadly the same as when it declined a first invitation in early May (see EUROPE 12019). In a letter dated 31 May - of which EUROPE has had sight - the Bulgarian finance minister, Vladislav Goranov, explains that he presented...