The member states plan to maintain confidentiality over the list of third countries they will assess in 2017 in the framework of the European blacklist of tax havens they plan to draw up. The finance ministers will moreover discuss certain controversial criteria which could not be defined at expert or ambassador level, despite the best attempts of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU over the weekend.
In its latest working document dated 7 November, of which EUROPE has had sight,...