France and Germany to 'harmonise' corporate tax rates

[22 February 2012, the Daily Telegraph] On 22 February, Helia Ebrahimi writing in the Daily Telegraph reported that Germany and France moved even closer to full fiscal union by announcing they will be "harmonising" their corporate tax rates by 2013 - a move that will increase the prospect of an EU-wide enforced tax rate that Ireland and the UK have been heavily opposed to. 

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