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Oskar Lafontaine

Oskar Lafontaine is former German social democrat minister of Finances, ex minister minister-president of the Land de Sarre y ex president of SPD.

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«To renegotiate the treaty, otherwise, Europe would fail»

by Cesare Salvi , Jean-Maurice Dehousse , Oskar Lafontaine , Pierre Larrouturou

17 May 2005

Romania will join the Union and to celebrate it, it has decided to lower the business profit taxes. As its neighbors reduce their profit taxes, Germany has decided to do the same thing and it will lower taxes from 38.3% to 32%. In 15 years, the average rate profit tax has been reduced a third (...)