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An impassioned French Finance Minister Michel Sapin tells parliament that France will put Panama back on its blacklist of tax havens in the wake of the "Panama Papers" affair. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration).
France plans to put Panama back on its blacklist of tax havens in the wake of the "Panama Papers" affair. As Sara Hemrajani reports, it's left other tax havens scrambling to show their transparency.
Brussels (Belgium), Feb 18 (EFE) .- The European Union (EU) added Panama once again to its blacklist of tax havens, which the country left in January 2018, arguing that it does not comply with the OECD Global Forum rules on transparency and exchange of fiscal information. INCLUDES RESOURCE HANDOUT BY EBS SOUNDBITES OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, VALDIS DOMBROVSKIS.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with residents of Blendecques, a town in France's northern region of Pas-de-Calais, as the nearby river Canche burst its banks again in a region already affected by several episodes of flooding. IMAGES
French farmers are returning to south-west France, stopping in Bergerac in the Dordogne region to rest. French authorities announced on Friday that the worst of a crisis that saw farmers block roads for days was over, but demonstrations continue elsewhere in Europe, including Spain, Italy and Greece. IMAGES
Police watch as farmers makes their goodbyes before leaving the portion of A1 motorway at Chennevieres-les-Louvres, near Paris international airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle, they had blocked off with tractors. IMAGES