http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/if-you-had-kept-quiet-you-would-have.html?m=1 "If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher" - The Commission utterly fails to address participants' concerns over FTT
EU Financial Transaction Tax support 'dead in the water' Rumours circulate that initiate close to losing vital Easern European backing..... http://www.hfmweek.com/news/2013/05/eu-financial-transaction-tax-support-dead-in-the-water Need subscription to read the rest of the article unfortunately. The only Eastern European countries in the 11 are Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia.
German SPD divided as SPD State leader warns Schaueble on FTT http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtscha...mid-stellt-sich-gegen-eigene-partei-1.1679806 (in German)
Very good news here indeed. Almost all of the articles regarding the ftt lately are very negative. It seems as though the wheels are falling off this proposal at a very fast rate
Nine European Associations Warn About The Negative Impact Of The Proposed FTT http://www.mondovisione.com/media-a...bout-the-negative-impact-of-the-proposed-ftt/
[...] Today saw yet another German voice raised again the tax â this time from the very party that is meant to be its greatest champion. Nils Schmid, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Finance â from the German social democrats (SPD)â wrote a letter to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble condemning the FTT in its current form as ârubbish.â Ouch. [...] http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
Robert Reich calls for "tiny tax" on Wall Street http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/wall-street-democrats_b_3333408.html Hit the comments section. Tell him why you think the FTT is a bad idea.
Coeure says ECB ready to help set up financial transaction tax http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/uk-ecb-financialtransactiontax-idUKBRE94Q03V20130527
This sounds like a death spiral to me... http://www.newsdaily.com/business/f...nancial-transaction-tax-unlikely-to-come-soon