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Apr

2022

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Urgent need to adopt the minimum tax directive (debate)

Madam President, the left will, of course, support every sense of urgency that exists, and that exists among the citizens, to put an end to the obscene reality that we have some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world paying low taxes or not paying taxes at all. But what we are promised is a tax on multinational companies that will be fair, fairly distributed and effective. And t…

23

Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Russia's military aggression against Ukraine has shown how important it is to overcome Europe's dependence on Russia. An economic dependence that has also become a political dependence in the response to this military aggression. It is important that this energy sovereignty of Europe is achieved with an agenda for the energy transition, without hesitation and zigzags, and not thro…

9

Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the European Union's economic rules are obsolete and are and have always been counterproductive. They were suspended during the pandemic because everyone knew that they would not be able to respond to this economic crisis anymore. And we already know today that they will not be able to respond to the economic crisis that is coming and that is going to be caused by Russia's invasio…

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Mar

2022

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Citizenship and residence by investment schemes (debate)

Mr President, golden visas operate on the basis of an indecent principle: the principle that the rights that come with nationality can be bought, the principle that people who choose our countries to work, so often in low-paid jobs, can wait years to have nationality and the associated rights, but people who want nationality to launder money from corruption or financial crime can have it on time. …

15

Dec

2021

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State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

Madam President, it seems to me to be very important that, in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Commission and the Council learn from the mistakes of the past, in particular the mistakes that led to the Troika programmes, and that the Member States are allowed to develop their own development strategies and accompany them with the structural reforms that the Member St…

13

Dec

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, this Parliament has debated digital platforms a lot from the point of view of labour rights and has come up with joint positions that are important, but there has been much less debate about what digital platforms mean from the point of view of competition, an issue that usually concerns both the European Commission and so little when digital platforms are involved. With digital p…

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Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, for my country, the European Union has already been a reference from the point of view of environmental laws and has already been a factor in modernising some of the actions of the authorities in Portugal at this level. However, this line of action of the European Union has been increasingly degraded. Throughout this mandate, we have brought to the Commission numerous complaints a…

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Oct

2021

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Global Tax Agreements to be endorsed at the G20 Summit in Rome, 30th/31st of October (continuation of debate)

Mr President, the OECD agreement on the taxation of multinationals is a fraud based on two lies. The first is that multinational companies will be taxed at 15%. That's not gonna happen. The first pillar provides for the first 10 % profit margin to be exempted, which means that some of the most profitable multinational companies on the planet will pay not 15, not 10, not 5, but 0 %, and the second …

20

Oct

2021

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Increased efforts to fight money laundering (debate)

Mr President, the European Commission has always been very quick to persecute all Member States that implement fiscal policies, public policies, social policies that violate economic governance rules. But it is curious to note that when it comes to regulating the criminality of the financial system, tax evasion, the hare turns into the turtle. And that is why we have so many Member States, like my…

18

Oct

2021

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Protecting workers from asbestos (debate)

Mr President, thank you to the rapporteur of this report for presenting us with a very clear position from Parliament on a decades-long public health problem that has killed tens of thousands of people in Europe alone and continues in all sorts of buildings in our cities, in offices, in apartments, in schools, in theatres, even in hospitals. The removal of asbestos from all these buildings has bee…

6

Oct

2021

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The Council's lack of will to move the European cross-border mechanism forward (debate)

Mr President, the main difference between cross-border regions and other regions is that the region next door is also not just another region, but another country. But this cannot be a reason why infrastructure, services, investments, which other regions in the same countries take for granted, or at least have no obstacles to implement, should be added to the already common discrimination of these…

6

Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Gentiloni, the size of the Recovery and Resilience Fund, spread over the various years in which it can be used, is below half a percentage point, less than 0.5% of European GDP. This has not prevented a barrage of propaganda around this instrument, which will be distributed in droppers, with corresponding pressures for Member States to implement the famous specific recom…

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, the Dutch Minister of Finance not so long ago called for an investigation of the countries of southern Europe because of their limited budgetary space. This Minister of Finance governs a Member State of the European Union that steals tax revenue that legitimately belongs to other Member States, including these southern countries, and thereby shifts the tax burden from multinational c…

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Sep

2021

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

Madam President, the exchange of information and administrative cooperation between tax authorities is fundamental to combating fraud and tax evasion and money laundering. These objectives are apparently consensual, but every time we discuss one of these reports we find that there are political forces, countries and even European institutions, which are not only not available to do what is necessa…

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Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, platforms are sold as a magical world of innovation and entrepreneurship. But beyond marketing and dazzling, mobile apps, the services that are provided, even algorithms, are far from innovations today. The only magic that platforms offer is the trick of making the boss disappear and the corresponding working relationship. The only innovation they have made available is the abilit…