Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:18:37 GMT - High Frequency Trading Review
By Hugh Carnegy
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right government, pushing hard to accelerate the adoption of a financial transaction tax in Europe, is aiming to introduce legislation in France as early as next month, ahead of other countries and before presidential elections in April.
The so-called Tobin tax is among the issues Mr Sarkozy will discuss with German chancellor Angela Merkel at a bilateral meeting in Berlin on Monday, before a European Union summit at the end of the month.
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