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Austria and Luxembourg keep making u-turns (Photo: .michael.newman.)

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The year that almost saw a clampdown on tax evasion

by Valentina Pop, EUROPE IN REVIEW 2013,

What do Russian oligarchs have in common with the campaign treasurer of French President Francois Hollande? Or Greece's richest with the family of Azeri autocrat Ilham Aliyev?

They were all listed in "Offshore Leaks," a database of over 130,000 offshore accounts obtained by Gerard Ryle, an Australian reporter who heads the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The consortium gave access to the data to over 80 media around the world, including EUo...

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