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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Food is important for our survival, for our health, for our well-being. Food is not only energy, but also enjoyment, especially when it is of high quality. Now we have a strategy and, Commissioner, you said it, that strategy must then be transformed into legislation. And as soon as we get proposals for it, we expect a proper impact assessment. But I also thin…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The Commission presented its Farm to Fork strategy almost a year and a half ago, and we have worked very hard here in this House in recent months to find a report, an answer to this strategy. And I would like to begin by thanking my co-rapporteur Anja Hazekamp and the shadow rapporteurs from all the political groups for the very intensive work a…

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, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Gentiloni! The recent events we have just discussed, the Pandora Papers, have shown very clearly how urgently we need to take action when it comes to tax fraud, evasion, abuse and even tax optimization. In the area of corporate taxation, further restrictions are needed, especially for larger, internationally active companies, which exploit differenc…

6

Oct

2021

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

Madam President, What you have come to know in recent days under the title Pandora Papers demonstrates the importance of the work we have been doing here for years, including in the FISC special committee. Immediately afterwards, we will discuss a report on tax optimisation and tax evasion in the European Union, which I myself worked on. Of course, it must also be said that the mere fact that some…

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Oct

2021

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Assessing the Union’s measures for the EU tourism sector as the end of the Summer season nears (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. It is, of course, regrettable that drastic travel restrictions during the COVID pandemic have restricted the free movement of people and have, of course, harmed tourism, which is dependent on the free movement of people. Unfortunately, we – and also the Commission – have not been able to find a uniform approach here and to oblige states to introduce uniform r…