EU summit paper sparks clash over taxation

EU finance ministers have clashed over a German presidency paper on the bloc's future economic policy prepared for the forthcoming summit of European leaders, with some member states opposing a reference to business taxation and to joint EU efforts to tackle "harmful tax practices."

After a similarly lively debate about harmonisation of tax base for companies at their previous meeting in late January, the tax issue sparked another collission of views by finance ministers on Tuesday (27 ...