25/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's policy debate on tax policy in the Union, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed to next week, for lack of time. "Following examination of Ireland's stability programme and the question of the statute of European political parties, there will not be enough time to open the debate", said the spokesperson for the Commissioner for taxation, Frits Bolkestein: "We hope that this issue will be dealt with earlier in the Commission's agenda...