Saturday, September 29, 2012

Germany, France launch procedure to secure European financial ...

BERLIN ? Germany?s Finance Ministry says Berlin and Paris have jointly appealed to the European Union?s executive to prepare the introduction of a tax on financial transactions.

The proposal has failed to secure a majority within the 27-nation EU. Germany and France are pressing for its introduction by the legal detour of so-called enhanced co-operation, which would allow a group of at least nine countries to go ahead with it.

The ministry said Friday that Germany?s Wolfgang Schaeuble and French counterpart Pierre Moscovici also wrote a letter to their European counterparts urging them to join their appeal to the European Commission.

At a June meeting of finance ministers 10 nations, among them Italy and Spain, backed the proposal. Britain, which has the continent?s biggest financial industry, opposes the plan.

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Source: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/09/28/germany-france-launch-procedure-to-secure-european-financial-transaction-tax/

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