Strasbourg, 15/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - Although the European Parliament seemed to have met all the demands of the Member States to allow final adoption of the statute under its legislature, new difficulties arose this week. Germany mainly but also Austria seem resolved to block the project once and for all.
On the basis of an opinion from the Council's legal department, which confirms that the part relating to fiscality must be adopted unanimously (when the rest of the project can be...