Brussels, 23/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - As the Fifteen had not managed in Nice to simplify the decision-making mechanism in the taxation area, the European Commission is re-assessing the strategy to be followed in this sensitive but nonetheless priority sector. The existence of fifteen different tax systems is at the origin of the persistent obstacles to cross-border activities in the Union that should be abolished if the aim fixed by the European Council of Lisbon to make the European...