The EU's economic and finance ministers this month informally agreed to introduce a "voluntary" tax on airline tickets to pay for development aid to less well off third countries. "[W]e agreed to introduce a tax on air tickets in the 25 or 27 states of the union, the procedures for which shall be set over the coming weeks," said Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister and current EU Council president, at the outcome of an informal ministerial gathering on 13-14 May in Luxembourg.
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