France faces fight in bid to cut EU aid funds to low-tax ...
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European Union officials Monday rejected a French proposal to cut funding to poor countries in eastern Europe with low tax rates that tempt investment away from their richer western neighbours.
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The European Union head office threatened Tuesday to take France to court and demand the return of subsidies to troubled energy and train giant Alstom SA, alleging that the government has not complied with EU conditions for the company's bailout.
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The debate on harmonizing capital-gain taxes in the European Union a ' roughly split between new and old members a ' took a turn for the worse when a French minister this week proposed to bar the distribution ...
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France's former prime minister Lionel Jospin entered the bitter debate in the opposition Socialist party over the EU's proposed constitutional treaty Wednesday, urging a vote in favour at a referendum planned ...
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Business & money: A new and virulent form of fraud threatens to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros
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French Socialists are to campaign for the EU constitution - a move that should avert a ânonâ in a national referendum set for 2005.
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The European Union on Thursday demanded that Washington explain more clearly how it subsidizes the Boeing Co. and warned it would counter any US challenge targeting France
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The French finance ministry has launched &quot;an investigative procedure&quot; to probe value-added-tax (VAT) fraud between European Union countries that could involve billions of euros annually.
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France announced plans Tuesday to spend over 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) on tax breaks and other incentives to encourage companies to keep jobs in the country rather than going abroad.
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The French government is looking to raise up to â¬5.8bn to help pay its debts by selling some of its France Telecom shares. As this will reduce its shareholding to just over 40 per cent, the move will allow
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France&#39;s European partners sought on  Monday to put the brakes on its drive to nominate former  Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn as next head of the  International Monetary Fund.
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French President Jacques Chirac will put forward ideas for an international tax scheme that would help build a 50-billion-dollar war chest to fight poverty during a 55-nation conference on economic development ...
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France is approaching a crossroads on the painful and devious road to economic and social reforms.
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Sarkozy said Sunday he planned to propose to his EU colleagues that the bloc's new members with lower than average tax rates be barred from receiving structural aid funds, arguing that if they were rich enough ...
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SLOVAKIA'S ambitious tax reforms, much welcomed by the business community, have attracted severe criticism from the French Government.
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The Swiss tax system is attracting businesses and celebrities, much to the irritation of its EU neighbours.
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Finance Minister Ivan Miklos has rejected criticism from several European Union member states, especially Germany and France, about Slovakia's low taxes.