Press Release: Economic and Financial Affairs Council, Luxembourg, 7 June 2005

Items debated include: Fiscal statistics; Euro coins - authentication of coins, national obverse sides of coins, change to the common sides of the coins; Broad Economic Policy Guidelines; Excessive Deficit Procedure - Netherlands - abrogation of the procedure; Financing for development - Millennium Development Goals; Money laundering and the financing of terrorism; Taxation of savings; Rates of VAT; Interest and royalties; Consequences of Court of Justice judgments.