Brussels, 08/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - As a result of the financial crisis, European finance ministers meeting on Tuesday 7 October did not have time to discuss tackling VAT (value added tax) fraud, and so did not reach any decision on the French Presidency's compromise on what are called “conventional” measures. These measures, adopted by the European Commission in March, seek, inter alia, to speed up the exchange of information on intra-Community deliveries.
The French draft...