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To: Rarebird who wrote (54728)	6/20/2000 2:41:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Maybe this was it, remember how last time the problems with Austria flared up we got a higher POG? I've been seeing stuff about it on Bloomberg early mornings for several days.. Tuesday June 20 7:07 AM ET EU Leaders at Loggerheads With Austria Reuters Photo By Paul Taylor, Diplomatic Editor SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA, Portugal (Reuters) - European Union leaders were at loggerheads with Austria over savings tax and diplomatic sanctions against Vienna as their two-day summit went into its final session on Tuesday. The 14 other member states approved a strategy for combating cross-border tax evasion based on a gradual switch over the next decade to exchanging information among EU governments on non-residents' savings income. But Austria refused to drop its objection, ostensibly to protect cherished banking secrecy but in reality, diplomats said, in protest at the diplomatic quarantine imposed on it since Joerg Haider's hard-right Freedom Party entered government in February.(cont) dailynews.yahoo.com