10/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The CDU MEP Werner Langen has described the “proposal by the French President Jacques Chirac to bring in a Tobin tax on cash transactions to pay for the fight against starvation and AIDS” as “populist”. The fact that Chancellor Schröder has also “spoken openly in favour of a Tobin tax despite all that we know about the practical difficulties shows that the two biggest countries of the euro zone have given up (…) on a reasonable and far-sighted...