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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8053

22 September 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/tobin tax
Some MEPs fear that Tobin Tax debate at ECOFIN Council may end up duping public opinion

Brussels, 21/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - Ahead of the ECOFIN Summit, a group of forty-odd MEPs and national deputies from the 15 EU Member States (mainly PES, GUE/NGL, Greens/EFA), including Harlem Désir (PES, France) and Glyn Ford (PES, UK), have signed a joint statement on the Tobin Tax in which they raise questions about what the fifteen Finance Ministers will decide "in their meetings behind closed doors". They ask whether the Council will decide to immobilise the proposal by sending it...

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