EU leaders call time on banking secrecy at tax summit
Brussels. European leaders targeted Wednesday setting a year-end deadline to do away with banking secrecy, hoping to recoup a trillion euros in lost tax each year in a time of record recession and unemployment.

Romanian road carriers close all roads in Romania over protest: Bulgaria’s BASAT
Sofia. “Due to protests the Romanian road carriers close all roads in Romania for freight vehicles for indefinite time,” Iliyan Filipov, member of the management board of the Bulgarian Association of the Organisations in the Automobile Transport (BASAT), announced the news for FOCUS News Agency.

Bulgaria’s CEDB is present at parliament, where are the rest of the MPs: MP Atanasova
Sofia. “The parliamentary group of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEBD) is present at the parliamentary hall, our leader is here, too. But where is Stanishev [Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Coalition for Bulgaria], where is Mestan [Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF),” asked CEDB MP Desislava Atanaova speaking at the parliamentary tribune, FOCUS News Agency reporter informed.