> Some EU member states have said they would give up their own banking
secrecy
> only if Switzerland and five other financial centres outside the EU - the
United
> States, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein and Monaco - were to do the
same.
>
How is the US like these places? And how are they dif
EU threat to Swiss tax haven secrecy
Charlotte Denny
Monday September 9, 2002
The Guardian
Switzerland is facing the threat of financial sanctions from the European Union
unless it lifts the secrecy cloaking its financial system.
Finance ministers, enraged at the refusal to hand over informatio