Word: luxembourger
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...heart of the dispute is an E.U. directive, finally agreed to last year after more than a decade of work, that aims to curb tax evasion through an exchange of tax information among member states. Prompted by Luxembourg and Austria?two tax havens within the E.U. that are particularly concerned about a flight of capital from their banks?Brussels is asking the Swiss to help out. It wants Switzerland, which is not an E.U. member, to automatically provide information to tax authorities about bank accounts held by E.U. residents...
...17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg. SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia, to 15 years in a maximum security prison for passing state secrets to the U.S.; in Moscow. Kalugin was found guilty of undermining national security for disclosing state secrets in his 1994 book...
...General strikes in Greece and Spain complicated the situation for travelers. The air-traffic controllers objected to the E.U.'s Single-Skies plan, which would replace national airspaces with zones of control based on international air corridors. French air-traffic controllers said they fear the plans could compromise safety. LUXEMBOURG Axis of Trade E.U. foreign ministers gave the green light to launch formal trade negotiations with Iran, despite heavy pressure from Israel and the U.S., which sees Iran as part of an "axis of evil." The E.U. agreement could give European companies an edge over their U.S. competitors once...
...Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market. The network stretches from Palermo to Milan to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes at all levels." The man thought to be responsible for smartening up the Mafia quit school at age 10. Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood...
...Europe should be shopping for drones that can carry out many of the tasks of unmanned aircraft at a fraction of the cost. Europe also needs to get its organizational act together. Every six months the E.U. has a new President who can come from the likes of tiny Luxembourg or neutral Ireland. Henry Kissinger once famously asked for Europe's telephone number. It's still unlisted. If Europe wants Washington to call, it must develop common and coherent foreign and defense policies backed by military power...