Austria Claims Financial Transaction Tax

Politics ♦ Published: September 21, 2012; 17:06 ♦ (Vindobona)

State Secretary Lopatka presents Austria’s positions to EU Commissioner Lewandowski.

Austria Claims Financial Transaction Tax / Picture: © European Commission

During a meeting with Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, Reinhold Lopatka, State Secretary in the Ministry of International and European Affairs, reconfirmed Austria’s priorities for the upcoming EU financial framework 2014-2020: “In times when all member states of the EU are subject to stringent consolidation and cost-cutting measures, the European Union itself must also clearly…