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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8939

30 April 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 46
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/education
Belgian Socialist Marc Tarabella suggests lowering VAT on school buildings, in context of Lisbon Strategy

Brussels, 29/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - Belgian Socialist MEP Marc Tarabella believes that, in order to attain the Lisbon goals for education, adequate school buildings should be built and fitted out to provide pupils with an appropriate learning environment. To this end, he suggests reducing VAT rates on such buildings. “If Europe is to place knowledge at the core of the Lisbon Strategy, then it must have the means to achieve this. In concrete terms, I suggest we look at how appropriate it...

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