In English, courtesy of Yahoo Translate:

Brussels (dpa) - The European dispute over access for U.S. security to EU banking data is being resolved. The interior ministers of the EU agreed on Monday in Brussels to a temporary agreement with the United States, which runs nine months, (said) diplomats at the edge of the meeting.

Austria and Germany abstained from the vote.  The agreement regulates the access of U.S. authorities for financial service providers Swift.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Well, the EU Parliament will have to be involved here and, hopefully, from this will emerge a reasonable and fair framework for harmonization of inheritance/estate taxation worldwide. It would seem likely that an agreement that is acceptable to the EU would be more likely to be one that Asian, African, middle eastern or Latin American countries could adopt as a matter of  self protection.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."