EU plans to set up joint list of tax havens

Chairman of Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem speaks during the meeting of the Eurozone finance ministers at the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, on April 22, 2016. (AFP)

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  • Iran’s president describes his country as the standard-bearer of fighting terrorism, saying without Tehran’s efforts, Daesh terrorists would have taken over Damascus and Baghdad.
     
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s pushing for creating special security zones in Syria near the border with Turkey where refugees could find shelter.
     
  • Israel gives notices to Palestinians in a village in the occupied West Bank as it plans to confiscate over 1,200 acres of their private land.
     
  • Thousands of demonstrators in the German city of Hannover protest a planned US-Europe free trade deal, a day before President Obama’s visit to the city.
     
  • EU finance ministers propose a series of measures, including a joint blacklist of tax havens, to combat tax evasion in the wake of the Panama Papers leak.

 


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