Germany’s new development minister said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“I am speaking out clearly against a tax on financial transactions which would be used to finance development aid,” said Dirk Niebel, a member of the pro-business Free Democrats who took up his post in October.
“It is already a stated position of the liberal party.”
I always like it when good news comes from Europe.