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INDICATORS Your Not-So-Secret Account After more than a decade of haggling, E.U. governments agreed to share information on nonresidents' bank accounts to help fight tax evasion. But the deal included a big loophole for Luxembourg, Belgium and Austria, which will keep their banking secrecy, levying a 35% tax on savings in return...
...raised in Somalia and Luxembourg and had hoped to live in Denmark, her father’s native country...
Born in Kenya but raised in Somalia and Luxembourg, the Winthrop House resident spoke six languages and was learning a seventh. Her desire to develop a greater understanding of humanity led her to study social anthropology...
Born on Dec. 28, 1982, in Mombasa, Kenya, while her parents were on vacation there, Smith spent her first eight years in Somalia and then moved to Luxembourg, where she graduated from the European School of Luxembourg. Her family moved to France after she came to Harvard in the fall...
...what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last year blocked GE's $43 billion acquisition of Honeywell. But last week Monti took a one-two punch from Bo Vesterdorf, president of the Luxembourg-based Court, in separate rulings that savaged the "errors, omissions and contradictions in the Commission's economic reasoning." The court overturned vetoes blocking two mergers: Schneider Electric's purchase of Legrand and a deal between packaging firms Tetra Laval and Sidel. In June it threw out another case involving...