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Sarkozy, Brown Push Against Tax Havens

July 6, 2009

Associated Press

EVIAN, France — The leaders of France and Britain pushed Monday for ambitious targets for tackling climate change and cracking down on uncooperative tax havens, ahead of upcoming meetings with other heads of state this week and in September.

The two leaders showed little sign of headway, however, on a stalled European military cargo plane project. The French and British immigration ministers did sign an agreement aimed at reinforcing joint measures to clamp down on the illegal flow of immigrants crossing the English Channel from France to Britain.

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