What Jonás spoke about.

6

Oct

2021

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Reforming the EU policy on harmful tax practices (including the reform of the Code of Conduct Group) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I cannot greet the President of the Council because he is not taking part in this debate, he did not want to take part in this debate. And the truth is that – as we said before – this discussion on the Code of Conduct Group comes, finally, at a really delicate moment after the knowledge of Pandora's papers. And the truth is that one does not just understand the reductio…

6

Oct

2021

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Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

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 aga…

15

Sep

2021

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Implementation of EU requirements for exchange of tax information (debate)

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 …

14

Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

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 some…

7

Jul

2021

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Review of the macroeconomic legislative framework (debate)

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, certain…

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Jul

2021

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2020 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2019 (debate)

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,…