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Ringholm outlines priorities - Applicant countries invited to informal Ecofin Council in Malmö

Stockholm, 04/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - At a press conference on 4 January in Stockholm, Ecofin Council President Bosse Ringholm presented the priorities of the Swedish Presidency on economic and financial matters. He noted that his objectives for the Ecofin Council are:

• better coordination of economic policies through the broad economic policy guidelines;
• measures to combat harmful tax competition;
• an integrated financial market in the EU by 2005, accomplished by the directives on...