Posted: Feb 13, 2019 10:50 am
fisherman wrote:The first reading of the EU Referendum Act was in May 2015 before the proposal date you gave, so unlikely that the tax directive was the reason.
The contents of the proposal must have been discussed in the previous years, so member states would be have been well aware of the implications. Even the UK may have been part of the preliminary discussions... (Perhaps to 'get the lay of the land'
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