Paris had taken the lead.
On Monday, late afternoon, the global minimum tax was withdrawn in extremis from the agenda of the meeting of EU finance ministers scheduled for the following day.
After two successive failures, the French presidency of the Council of the EU preferred to avoid biting the dust a third time while this project is one of France's priorities.
The objective was also not to give grain to grind with the American opponents of the project, namely the Republicans, according to whom it will be synonymous with loss of competitiveness for the United States.
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An agreement is possible in Europe
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This is also what Bruno Le Maire wants to believe.
Tuesday, at the end of the Ecofin meeting, the latter gave an appointment to journalists on June 17 when the last closed session of finance ministers under the French presidency will be held and during which he hopes to obtain a deal.
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