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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8353

4 December 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
No agreement on "tax package" - another Council meeting will need to be arranged over next few days

Brussels, 03/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - Ecofin failed to reach an agreement on the "tax package" on Tuesday. Luxembourg, Austria and Belgium opposed the compromise put forward by the Danish Presidency. These three countries wanted more guarantees on commitments made by third countries, Switzerland in particular, that they would adopt "equivalent" measures to those put in place by Member States in the directive on savings taxes, as well as on commitments made by countries and associated...

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