On Friday 18 June in Luxembourg, the EU Finance Ministers welcomed the proposal of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council to limit, as a first step, the Commission’s proposal to exempt from VAT the goods and services that the EU makes available to Member States and citizens in times of crisis (see EUROPE B12696A8), to the Covid-19 crisis only.
During the technical discussions on the text, many concerns were expressed by Member States about the scope of the proposal being too broad and...