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French MEP denies plans to raise revenue from email, but says issues of taxes and new technologies should be debated

Alain Lamassoure, the French MEP at the centre of recent reports about a potential EU-wide tax on text messages and emails, today issued a statement distancing himself from the controversial propos...

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