French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, hail the agreement of 136 countries on setting a minimum tax rate for multinationals as "a big success." The OECD-brokered deal will be "at the core of" France's EU presidency, which will start in January 2022, Le Maire tells AFP outside the International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITES