According to recent reports, Aruba, Barbados, and Bermuda are to be removed from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions during an EU Council meeting scheduled for 17 May 2019. The countries were added to the list in March 2019 due to a failure to implement commitments they had made to the EU by the agreed deadlines ({News-2019-03-29/A/5-previous coverage}), although this was contested. If the three jurisdictions are removed, twelve jurisdictions will remain listed, including American Sa…