05/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt spoke, in an interview with the European Voice newspaper, in favour of a direct European tax. As everybody pays taxes at the local and national level, it would require a system to finance the EU directly, he said. The BELGA press agency indicates that Mr Verhofstadt's spokesperson added that he did not want to "launch a debate on a European tax", but make the system for financing the European Union "more transparent and...