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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7907

21 February 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 35 / 51
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation

20/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The NGOs "Entraide et Fraternite" and "11.11.11" have called on the future Belgian Presidency of the EU Council to raise, during the second half of this year, the possibility of introducing a "Tobin tax" on capital movements. Let us recall that the European Parliament discussed such a measure on several occasions (bearing the name of the winner of the Noble prize for economics, professor James Tobin), which was nevertheless never seriously considered by the...

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