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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation

Commission and Germany hostile to French Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's idea of linking tax and structural aid

Brussels, 06/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - "We don't need easy solutions", said the European Commission on Monday in reaction to French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has proposed that structural funds should be taken away from countries which practise tax dumping.

The French minister told French TV Channel TF1 on Sunday that "in Europe, we cannot say that we are rich enough to lower taxes, even get rid of them altogether for some, and at the same time ask the countries of old Europe to...

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