French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said an agreement on implementing a global minimum corporate tax in Europe is possible by the end of June despite Poland repeatedly blocking a deal.

Nigeria did not join an international tax agreement brokered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development because it would result in revenue losses to Africa’s biggest economy.

Countries are considering cementing companies that are currently in scope of proposed international tax rules there permanently, even if a company subsequently drops below the threshold for inclusion, a negotiator on the global deal said Monday.

Nearly half of the EU’s members should fix issues in their tax systems as part of efforts to recover from the pandemic and strengthen the bloc’s economy, the European Commission said Monday.

Poland will most probably uphold its veto on introducing minimum global corporate tax at Tuesday Ecofin meeting, Warsaw-based Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper reports, without saying where it got the information.

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Poland’s remaining objections to an EU-wide directive that would implement a global minimum tax rate of 15% are “only political,” Germany’s finance minister said Friday.