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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8883

8 February 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/g7
Majority of EU Member States are in favour of tax on kerosene for increasing development aid - G7 repeats its Boca Raton argument on exchange rate volatility

Brussels, 07/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The United Kingdom, which has made the Millenium Development Goals the priority of its G7 Presidency in 2005, felt that the meeting of G7 Finance Ministers in London on 4 and 5 February allowed some progress to be made in this field, although the press release recognises that “there is still much to be done”. The main source of satisfaction for Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is that finance ministers spoke of the possibility of...

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