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Shifting tax from labour to property and consumption is a new priority for EU finance ministers. (Photo: .michael.newman.)

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Europe's attention finally shifts from bailouts to tax cuts

It is a sign that the European economy is no longer in crisis-territory that tax cuts rather than bailouts dominated Monday’s (7 July) meeting of eurozone finance ministers.

Ministers at the monthly Eurogroup meeting agreed to sign off the next €1 billion tranche of Greece’s bailout programme almost as an afterthought. Instead, the main item of discussion focused on how they can cut business costs and increase the pay-packet of the average European.

In its annual set of economic r...

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Shifting tax from labour to property and consumption is a new priority for EU finance ministers. (Photo: .michael.newman.)

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