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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8003

11 July 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Finance Ministers reserve mitigated welcome for European tax project floated by Belgian and Commission

Brussels, 10/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The idea of introducing a "European tax" was far from arousing enthusiasm among Finance Ministers during the debate on the priorities of the Belgian Presidency, which opened the Ecofin Council on Tuesday in Brussels under the presidency of Didier Reynders. The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain were clearly against the idea, whereas Luxembourg, Belgium and, to a certain extent, France and Germany were more in...

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