EU ministers clash on tax policy
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Deep differences surface at an EU meeting over proposals to coordinate tax policies across the European Union.
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European Union foreign ministers were battling to forge a deal on slowing down Turkey's EU membership talks over Ankara's failure to respect its trade obligations to Cyprus.
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EU ministers reopened old divisions  on Monday over how to overhaul Europe's vast wine sector,  clashing over plans to dig up centuries-old vineyards and  rekindling a north-south rift on using sugar in winemaking.
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European Union finance ministers pressed for action by the United States to prop up the dollar as eurozone nations expressed their deep disquiet at the parlous state of America's national finances.
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EU leaders clashed today over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
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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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EU ministers express sharp differences over how to deal with an influx of illegal immigrants to Europe.
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Plans for an independent Scotland to undercut UK business tax rates are being debated by the SNP.
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"Once a body has economic activities attached to it, then there can be a distortion of competition and it wouldn't be the first time we look at advantages given to the Church in various member states"  BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission has asked the Italian government to explain a tax break for Catholic Church clinics or hostels that may break EU rules on state subsidies by giving an unfair advantage ... via FindLaw
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The government came under pressure from lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday to compensate policy-holders hit by heavy losses at insurer Equitable Life.
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MPs gear up for a Commons fight over the amount of time they will have to debate the EU reform treaty.
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Electronics manufacturers railed   against a European tax on recordable discs and music players   like iPods on Friday, even as a Dutch industry group was   getting ready to impose new local levies on recordable media.
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Incoming European Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said on Thursday that tax competition in the European Union was useful, and the idea that lower taxes in eastern Europe created a form of âsocial dumpingâ was a myth.
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Ministers were today accused of failing to properly plan for the number of eastern Europeans workers coming to Britain as new figures showed that the number of those given national insurance numbers rose by 16% last year.
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Moves to harmonise corporate tax systems across the European Union are to be resuscitated, despite the objections of Britain and Ireland.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - 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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European finance ministers are meeting Tuesday, with talks focusing on the thorny issue of alcohol taxes.