Coeure says ECB ready to help set up financial transaction tax...
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ok, it's clear to me now ;) I just read the pdf...
About the residence principle: If I understand the faq well, I think only EU (EC-11) residents or companies have to pay the FTT, and only if there...
I'm interested in it too. According to this, they need 258 out of 345 votes for permission to form an EC. The 11 countries and Netherlands have...
It's not very clear to me too. I think that europolitics.info has spoken with an EC/EU representative (or something). The sentence: 'We shall not...
Hmm.. what would be those 'astonishing' new demands Whole article:...
So it seems former MinFin Jan Kees de Jager was the real FTT-opponent. Too bad he is gone. I never trusted PM Rutte on this one, but that he...
And it goes on.....
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2012-09/24704127-italien-und-spanien-blockieren-finanztransaktionssteuer-003.htm
More details of the French FTT: http://www.pwc.be/en/financial-services-newsalert/2012/french-financial-transaction-tax.jhtml
Study from a research professor (pdf): Would a Financial Transaction Tax Affect Financial Market Activity? Insights from Futures Markets - by...
Germany keeps pushing: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-30/germany-wants-transaction-tax-tied-to-esm-bank-aid-focus-says.html
Pfff... 2014, 2013, 2015, and now even this year.....
It seems there are now 10 willing FTT-countries, (probably including Italy now?), after the EU-Summit:...
Seems Italy doesn't resist an EC-FTT anymore.....
I think they are hoping that the 9 countries that have signed the letter to the Danish EU presidency, about speeding up the FTT negotiations, will...
Seems that FDP is giving up their resistance...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120428/local/ECB-head-backs-Malta-s-position.417345
http://de.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idDEBEE82M08220120323
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