Brussels, 22/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Council had definitively adopted the directive on cross border mergers in the EU and the 3rd directive on the use of the financial system for money laundering or funding terrorism, without debate, during the Agriculture Council on 19-20 September.
The directive on cross border mergers aims to facilitate this kind of merger between companies of different Member States through absorption of one by the other or by the setting up of a new company. It...