What Jonás spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the truth is that I am in this debate deeply ashamed. And ashamed because we have been repeating debates similar to this for years and we are not able to put the necessary measures to avoid it. I appreciate and support the tremendous effort of the Commission and Commissioner Gentiloni in the progress he has made in the fight against money laundering, on the road to harmonising a minimum corporate tax rate, which seems to be progressing reasonably well. But it's not enough. It's obviously not enough. And every day that we wake up with news similar to that of the Pandora papers, we should, I don't know if to reflect, because I believe that everything is already reflected, but to really get to work. And, in my opinion, our friends in the Council have a lot to do. Because many of the initiatives supported by this Parliament and proposed by the Commission end up being blocked in the Council. And we will talk later, in the next debate, about the list of tax havens. But it's really embarrassing that the same week we know about Pandora's papers a list of tax havens is made public that is not presentable. And I know that the Commission is aware that this list cannot work like this. What surprises me is that at some point the Commission will not tell the Council that enough is enough, that it cannot be that the list of tax havens will always end up blocked and cut by the Council. Finally, we have reached the moment of truth and the Council – you and the other governments – must take responsibility once and for all.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to start this brief speech by congratulating, of course, Sven Giegold on this report, all the rapporteurs and, especially, also my colleague Evelyn Regner. We are certainly dealing with a typical situation in the Community institutions, in which, in those areas where we do not have direct powers, we push, demand and, moreover, regulate in the field of tax cooperation between the Member States, and the States do not respond. I believe that this report points to the current problems. Put your finger where it should be placed: on top of those governments of states that do not even share information. I would also like to end by asking the Members of the Group of the People's Party and the Renew Group to maintain the agreement reached on this report in committee - in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs - and to somehow avoid initial considerations, which go against, on the other hand, the work of the institutions themselves in that very important negotiation that we are having in the OECD to set global tax minima.

Mr President, Commissioner, every day we read, we see, new news about the present effects of climate change: floods this summer, fires, unusual weather effects, which remind us of the need to act and to act now. I believe that the package presented by the Commission is very well targeted and we need to somehow exemplify to the public that these adverse effects of climate change - which is not something future, is not something that is going to happen in the indeterminate future, but is already happening - have an answer in the package. I believe that for this we need to strengthen at least two initiatives: the Border Adjustment Mechanism cannot, in my opinion, be in the testing phase for two years; We need to accelerate it to show that this transition is just. And for that transition to be just, we also need to strengthen the Social Fund for Climate Change.

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to congratulate Margarida Marques and all the shadow rapporteurs of this Parliament who have negotiated and agreed on an important, very relevant and also timely document; a document that undoubtedly recognizes that we cannot return to the fiscal rules of the current Stability Pact, of the , of the tax governance treaty ... Because, certainly, when we finish, when we finally see the end of this crisis, the levels of public debt will be so high that to try to reduce them to 60%, at the rate that the current rules impose of one-twentieth each year, it is really impossible and we must recognize it. We cannot pretend to move at that speed when the crisis is over. And I believe that this report recognises this evidence and also takes advantage of the current moment, when we are not implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, to bring forward a reform of those rules; reforms that should, first and foremost, improve the investment capacity of public administrations. We have ahead of us the climate transition, the digital transition and the improvement of social conditions to reduce the poverty and inequality that this crisis is creating. And we also need to give our fiscal policies as a whole a greater degree of countercyclical capacity. We had seen it in past crises and we see it in the current one. With the current rules we cannot do countercyclical policy and that is why the Stability Pact has been put out of circulation for a while, but, above all, why we have agreed to the creation of the Next Generation EU, an instrument to finance investment collectively. And I think the future of Next Generation EU is very much intertwined with the debate on tax rules, because you can't understand what rules we are going to apply to states to implement countercyclical policies if we don't reflect on the future of Next Generation EU. And the proposal for this report, led by Margarida Marques and the other rapporteurs, is timely, it aims to make individualized analyses of debt sustainability, with a monitoring instrument, and I hope that the Commission and the Council will listen to this report, read it and start that much-needed debate for European citizens.

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Mr President of the EIB, thank you very much for being here today; It's a pleasure to welcome you. I believe that the European Investment Bank does many things well, and the report acknowledges this: the work on the deployment of the Juncker Plan, the definition of the EIB as a climate bank and, of course, the investment in all these last years to improve capacity, increase domestic demand throughout the European Union, and also in development work. But I'd like to ask two questions here today. The first concerns both the President of the EIB and Vice-President Dombrovskis. We often talk about improving the EIB's democratic accountability to this House and about the EIB's capital problems; the report again calls for an increase in the EIB's capital. In recent years we have used the Union budget to give guarantees to the issues of the European Investment Bank itself, but I would like us to be able to explore the possibility that, from the budget of the European Commission, we enter directly into the capital of the European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank's own Treaty should be reviewed, but we have already done so in view of the United Kingdom's departure. And, if the European Commission were present in the EIB's capital, I believe that control of this House would be much better and stronger. I would also like to ask you about the involvement of the EIB in the development of the Just Transition Mechanism, both through InvestEU and through the public sector credit facility. And two final concerns: We have received a lot of news about the EIB's human resources management, perhaps too presidential and not sufficiently democratised as it should be. I don't know if the president wants to take advantage of the appearance to comment on this matter. And it is true that the Ethics Committee ⁇ of whose existence we are pleased ⁇ in recent years has given too many waivers This is not really the case for one or the other Vice-President, but there are many Vice-Presidents working in the private sector and I think this should be reviewed.