To continue yesterday’s metaphor…it looks like the Archduke may survive after all. Merkel and Sarkozy supposedly have the umpteenth deal to save the Euro without making fundamental change and
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Sometimes the glaringly obvious needs to be said. Euro  leaders have now conceded that Greece will, almost inevitably, default on its debt obligations. There is
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Greece  is descending into chaos.  It should hardly be news to anyone: but it has not happened before is the greatest  surprise. Of course Greece
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I’ve just explained why I think Jersey will fail the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation rules, again. Since it is replicating the behaviour of the Isle of
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Philip Ozouf, Jersey’s finance minister said on his blog yesterday: Supported by the Council of Ministers, I have today announced my intention to repeal those elements of
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European Voice reports: Officials are hoping that next week’s (17 May) meeting of finance ministers will at last see movement on the EU’s plans to harmonise savings
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The EU’s Economic and  Financial Affairs Council  (Ecofin) is meeting on Monday and Tuesday next week. As they note: The Council will hold a policy debate on
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As the Telegraph reported on Sunday: The European country is known for its banking secrecy and the Treasury estimates tens of thousands of British people
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The following is for all serious offshore aficionados.  It comes form the person I think the foremost expert on the European Union Savings Tax Directive – Mark Morris,
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