GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council

Spring Summit, updated stability and convergence programmes of seven Member States, G7, tax on savings and reduced-rate VAT on agenda of meeting at which few decisions are expected

Brussels, 09/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Be it the purely economic and monetary plank or the section reserved for taxation issues, the meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of this Tuesday 10 February is unlikely to be a decisive one. The Ministers are to kick off their work with a debate to prepare Ecofin's contribution to the European Spring Summit. The discussions will be based around a "discussion document on key issues" drawn up by the Irish Presidency of the EU, on the...