Jospin backs moves for cross-border capital tax

The French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said in a television interview on 18 August 2001 that France would be making an initiative on the introduction of a tax on cross-border movements of capital at the September meeting of EU finance ministers (Ecofin).

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