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Council gives positive assessment of state of budgetary stability reached by three Member States
Brussels, 27/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - After having reached the compromise on savings taxation (see above page), the Ecofin Council:
- adopted a Declaration concerning the macro-economic and financial stability of the applicant countries (EUROPE will come back to this in greater detail);
- gave Opinions relating to the updated stability programmes for Germany, Finland and the Netherlands. These opinions are positive and Mr Solbes considers the budgetary situation in Finland and the Netherlands...