Brussels, 29/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - Discussions at the Council on the simplification and rationalisation of the European jungle of reduced rates of value-added tax (VAT) are likely to be littered with pitfalls in 2008, if the preparatory work for the adoption of the specific conclusions at the Ecofin Council, to be held on Tuesday 4 December, is anything to go by. Trapped between the positions of Germany, Austria and Denmark - joined to a lesser extent by Estonia and Lithuania - which are...