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Calmy-Rey and Frattini focus on tax problems

This content was published on Jan 13, 2011 Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey admitted that the tax dossiers were a “real thorn in our relations” but didn’t want to talk about a “crisis”. She blamed the blocked negotiations on a bilateral double taxation agreement, Switzerland being placed on an Italian blacklist of tax havens and “discriminatory measures” against Swiss companies in Italy. She…