e.u. backflips on its tax haven blacklist only a month out the naming and shaming over a dozen nations the european union prepares to delist. bitcoin takes another bashing cryptocurrency continues to fold in value over regulation fears and. what happens when a german bank advises customers to invest their mistakes in global shipping and trade volumes suddenly plummet. i mean physical and let's do business tax havens a top of the e.u.'s agenda today but the bloc isn't writing up a list of havens it did that last month this month it's with laying down the list activists a shocked e.u. authorities argue this is progress at its best i'll explain seventeen countries were named and shamed on the list published back in december many of them was smaller islands in the caribbean in the pacific officials now expect remove eight of those countries next week after they've made new commitments to reform they include south korea one of the world's largest economies the united arab emirates one of the largest arab economies and panama long a haven for offshore accounts so is this a breakthrough or is eur