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• EU Leaders to Affirm Bank Union Strategy to Break Crisis Cycle

  European leaders next week will affirm their aim to break the crisis-causing links between banks and sovereign debt by centralizing bank oversight, while leaving open how to resolve German reluctance on cost-sharing.

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  G-8 Commits to Shrinking Bank Secrecy in Anti-Tax-Evasion Push

  Group of Eight leaders agreed to work for “a new global standard” to stamp out bank secrecy and pledged to deter multinational companies’ tax-avoidance strategies, according to a draft joint statement.

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  EU Chiefs See Trade Deal With U.S. Fostering Growth

  European leaders seeking a path to economic growth while curbing their debt focused on the benefits of a trade agreement with the U.S. after the European Union authorized the start of talks.

• EU’s Barroso Approves EIB Lending to Portuguese SMEs

  European Commission President Jose Barroso said a European Investment Bank loan to spur the Portuguese economy will go ahead, ending a growing spat between the two institutions.

• EU Ministers Expected To Approve Anti-VAT Fraud Rules

  European Union finance ministers are expected to sign off next week on regulations to combat fraud related to value-added taxes after nations reached agreement in Brussels yesterday, an EU official said.

• EIB Weighs Flood Aid Similar to Amount Offered in 2002

  The European Investment Bank is considering loans to countries affected by heavy flooding that could be on the scale of the 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) provided in 2002 under similar conditions, the Luxembourg-based EIB said today.

• EU Seeks 2015 Automatic Exchange of Capital Gains Tax Data

  Dividends, capital gains and other forms of financial income should be subject to automatic exchange of information among tax authorities beginning in 2015, according to a European Commission plan.

• EU To Seek Power For Limited Trade Concessions on Culture

  The European Union will press EU governments to permit negotiations over local-content media rules as part of a bargaining strategy for planned trade talks with the U.S., EU officials told reporters in Brussels.

• EU Says Countries Must Shoulder Responsibility for Ailing Banks

  Euro-area states should only be able to seek direct help for their banking systems from the currency zone’s firewall fund if their national solvency is at risk, the European Commission said in a draft report.

• EU Nations Aim to Scale Back Energy-Tax Increase, Document Shows

  European Union governments want to scale back a planned increase in fuel taxes as the bloc seeks to emerge from a recession, according to a report prepared for EU ministers.

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