An intention becoming clearer. The Commission announced its intention in a somewhat subdued manner last month, in its preparatory report for the Spring Summit of 25/26 March. This report (reproduced in Nr 2346/2347 of our series EUROPE/Documents, published with our bulletin of 4 February) included "the definition of a common consolidated tax base on company profits" among the "strategic measures for our competitiveness, which remains blocked by a lack of political goodwill" (chapter 2.3). A...