Weekly Report - 24 October 2024 (WR-24-42)

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino visited France this week, holding a meeting in the Élysée presidential palace in Paris with his French peer Emmanuel Macron on 21 October. Mulino lobbied Macron to pledge support for Panama’s removal from the blacklist drawn up by the European Union (EU) of “jurisdictions which are deemed non-cooperative” in terms of compliance with international standards of tax transparency and fair taxation.