While Germany recently announced that the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would be a key topic of its future EU Council Presidency, negotiations between the ten participants in the enhanced cooperation - namely Germany, France, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Italy and Slovakia - seem to have resumed.
In a letter sent in early April to EU Taxation Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz considers that "significant progress has been made in...