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Impact assessment paints positive picture of financial tax. The European Commission is to increase the pressure on EU member states to accept proposals for a financial...

Semeta says system needs modernising. Algirdas Semeta, the European commissioner for taxation, is to initiate a wide-ranging review of the European Union's value-added tax...

Stung by criticism from the European Union's auditors, the European Commission has named the Czech Republic, Italy and Spain as the worst managers of EU money.

A change of commissioner in charge of the EU's statistical office. At one level, the decision by José Manuel Barroso that responsibility for Eurostat, the EU's...

Commission prepared to get tough over banking deals. Algirdas Semeta, the European commissioner for taxation, has signalled a tough stance on bilateral tax deals that Germany...

Rules need to be updated to meet new challenges and greater transparency to build more trust. The new director-general of the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, says that...

Šemeta to outline plans for carbon and fuel taxes, while businesses are concerned about impact on trade. The European Commission will renew its bid for EU-wide carbon taxes...

Budgetary control committee votes in favour of approval but calls for budget reforms to be implemented. Members of the European Parliament's budgetary control committee...

Commission plans to harmonise EU corporate tax systems. The European Commission is reviving a 10-year-old plan for partial harmonisation of national corporate tax systems,...

MEPs present list of demands for 2009 spending to be approved by the Parliament. MEPs on the European Parliament's budgetary control committee are threatening to withhold...

MEPs say not enough is being done to curb poor financial management. Members of the European Parliament reacted to the auditors' report by accusing the European...

Improvements in regional policy spending marred by deterioration in agriculture and rural development The European Union's auditors today gave their most favourable verdict...

Two taxation optionson the agenda but member states are divided over how to take action. The EU's finance ministers will meet in Brussels on 7 September to reconcile...

The European Commission has relaunched discussions on reforming the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, in a bid to break a two-year deadlock. Algirdas Šemeta, the European...

Commission president should take care that he does not do lasting damage to the principle of the single market. Pragmatism or principle? It is a constant dilemma for the...

Proposal back on the agenda despite strong opposition from some member states. The European Commission will start discussions next Wednesday (23 June) on imposing a minimum...

European commissioners take different routes out of Madrid. Getting to the meeting of European Union finance ministers in Madrid last week was a challenge. Getting away...

The Lisbon treaty offers a way to help clean up the EU's institutions and bolster the anti-fraud office. The European Parliament has over the short years of its existence...

Selection process comes on eve of a reappraisal of the anti-fraud office. The European Commission will today (9 April) launch the search for a new director-general for OLAF,...

Šemeta says he could push for an agreement on common corporate tax rules. Algirdas Šemeta, the European commissioner for taxation, has said he is prepared to push for an...