EUROPEAN NOTEBOOK By Alisha Houlihan
WE GOT an insight last Friday into the horse-trading that is about to take place between EU countries for the honour of hosting the new AML Authority (AMLA).
At a meeting of the bloc’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council ministers from the competing countries set out their stalls about why they AMLA should be located in their countries.
With Latvia out of the equation because of its treatment of former FIU chief Ilze Znotina, Lithuania is the only Baltic state in contention.