A recently-formed alliance of "accidental Americans" in the Netherlands and a group calling itself Bi-National European Investment Bankers (BiNEIB) is urging the European Parliament to end what they call the "discriminatory, fundamental rights-violating" practice of prohibiting U.S. citizens resident in the EU, as well as EU/U.S. dual citizens, from being able to purchase so-called EU SURE and Next Generation EU (NGEU) bonds.

An American resident in the Netherlands who, like many other American expats in Europe, has been frustrated by his inability to invest in the vast majority of regulated investment products because of his "EU-resident, 'U.S. Person'" status, is calling on the EU Parliament to exempt him and others in this category, on request, from its MiFID II (Market in Financial Instruments Directive II) and PRIIPs (Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products) regulations.

The Nederlandse Accidental Americans (NLAA), an organization that advocates on behalf of accidental Americans who are residents and citizens of the Netherlands, has joined forces with a group representing some individual European investment bankers and former bankers to file a petition calling for change in the way that the EU allows companies and governments to share the personal and financial data of so-called "accidental Americans" who happen also to be EU citizens. 

As the U.S. government has once again published its latest quarterly list of the names of Americans whom it says surrendered their U.S. citizenships in the three months to the end of June, experts in the business of assisting Americans to renounce and relinquish their citizenships are again questioning the numbers. 

A top official at Lithuania's State Data Protection Inspectorate (SDPI) has told the founder of the main European advocacy organization representing "accidental Americans" that his department shares the Association of Accidental Americans' belief that a recent EU Court of Justice (CJEU) decision had "indeed made a change" in the way personal data transfers to third countries should be carried out.

Schroders, the London-based, London Stock Exchange-listed wealth management company, is one of the biggest and longest-established wealth managers to specialize in looking after expatriate American clients... 

In a gesture no doubt aimed at least in part at the estimated 7 million to 9 million Americans who live outside of the U.S., today's BBC World Service's Weekend show set aside a 15-minute segment to examine some of the tax and citizenship issues these expats are currently struggling with.

For the fifth time since last December, Switzerland's Federal Tax Administration has published a list of banks banks, fiduciary firms and insurance companies that it says are on notice to provide it with information on their U.S. clients, in order that they are able to comply with the American anti-tax evasion law known as FATCA. 

The latest attempt by certain French lawmakers to introduce a proposed amendment that would oblige the U.S. to reciprocate with respect to the information it currently receives from France under FATCA has ended, after members of France's National Assembly voted against it late in the afternoon on Friday.  

As the dust begins to settle on the latest revelation of the gap between what America's wealthiest are paying in federal income taxes, and ordinary, law-abiding American taxpayers are – which came earlier this week, in the form of a major report by the non-profit, New York-based ProPublica investigative journalism organization – expat Americans, tax experts and others are seeing a growing confrontation developing.