With the future of the UK seemingly hanging by a thread it is understandable that events north of the border are dominating attention, but...

EU finance ministers met today , with the financial transaction tax (FTT) once again topping the agenda . They were presented with a new...

This morning’s ECJ judgement that the UK’s legal challenge against a proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) is premature was what many h...

There has been an important development brewing in the UK’s flagship case against the EU's proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) . ...

Back in September, we wrote on this blog that the EU’s Financial Transaction Tax was “dying a death of a thousand cuts”. However, follo...

The EU’s Financial Transaction Tax has taken another big blow today – possibly a fatal one. A leaked legal opinion by the European Counci...

The Bundesbank , The Deutscher Aktieninstitute (DAI) , and even EU civil servants from the 11 participating countries have all warned again...

There's an old Latin saying, "If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher." Reading the Commission's de...

As we noted recently with the exclusive release of  internal documents on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), even amongst those who are...

As was made evident by the internal memo about the EU financial transaction tax (FTT) - that we exclusively published yesterday - there a...

The European Commission, of course, doesn't get what the fuss is about, but some countries that are meant to participate in the much-cri...

It has just been announced that at midnight last night the UK government submitted a challenge against the financial transaction tax to the ...

The FTT: Who will pay? The European Commission has now tabled its proposal for a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) applying to the eleven...

The FT reported today on the latest draft proposals for the EU financial transactions tax (FTT), which is proceeding under enhanced coopera...

As is traditional, a leaked copy of the next  EU Summit Conclusions has already been making its way around the media long before the summit...

The 'growth dinner' of EU leaders is about to start. No big decisions are expected (this is a meeting of EU leaders after all) but...

As has been widely reported, Francois Hollande - the socialist contender for the French Presidency - gave a major speech yesterday. Unsurp...

The European Commission continues to spend a huge amount of taxpayers’ time and money pushing around its proposal for an EU financial transa...