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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8112

14 December 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
No progress on tax on energy or tax on savings

Brussels, 13/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Late afternoon on Thursday, the EcoFin Council seemed not to have made progress on two difficult issues on its agenda, the tax on energy and the tax on savings, which will be on the menu of the Laeken Summit. The Belgian Presidency should simply present an "oral report" to the Summit on the state of work devoted to the tax on energy, the positions of the Member states remaining still far apart. Spanish Minister Rato told the press that "it is not Spain...

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