Luxembourg, 14/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - Luxembourg caused no inconsiderable surprise on Tuesday 14 October, when it withdrew its request for an extra year, until 2018 instead of 2017, to apply the automatic exchange of information (AEI) under the revised directive on administrative cooperation, which aims to transpose the global OECD standards in this area into EU legislation. For its part, Austria upholds its own request “on technical grounds”, but has pledged to do all in its power to...