June 24th, 2009
The French non-profit organization, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD), released a new report Wednesday on government corruption and stolen assets from developing countries.
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June 23rd, 2009
At a meeting in Berlin on Tuesday, the OECD finance ministers agreed to step up the fight against tax evasion, focusing on countries such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.
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June 22nd, 2009
Our friends at the
Tax Justice Network blog have pointed out some great news about France in
Tax-News.com today. The French government is apparently unveiling a new regulation which would require all French banks to disclose all information about their connections to tax havens.
From the
article:
Following a vote last week on the law pertaining to the merger of the Caisse d’Epargne and the Banque Populaire, creating the country’s second largest bank, credit institutions in France are now legally obliged to publish information in their annual accounts regarding their activities in...
June 11th, 2009
An article in the
Financial Times today uses a report from One to highlight the fact that France and Italy have not met the development goals set by the G7 at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit:
A leading development lobby group has condemned Italy and France for failing to meet targets to increase aid to sub-Saharan Africa and called on the G7 and other international organisations to take sanctions against such breaches in future...
One made the call as it published a new report assessing the progress of G7 countries in meeting targets to increase aid to...
