Sven Giegold

Month: December 2015

First success against data leech AnaCredit: ECB starts public consultation – complaint at the European Ombudsman begins to bear fruit

The ECB is currently working on a European credit data registry called AnaCredit (Analytical Credit Dataset). From the end of 2017 onwards, banks are supposed to report to the central bank data on all loans in excess of EUR 25 000. The ECB claims that the AnaCredit project is a purely statistical undertaking, and that […]

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Lobby of Tax Evaders: Campaign against Tax Evasion

This article published on 7/9/2015 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.fr-online.de. Thanks to the translator Marc Batko. The public still does not know how much taxes businesses pay and in what country. This must change but Germany blocks transparency. The outrageous tax avoidance of several international conglomerates could be stopped with a […]

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TAXE is dead, long live TAXE!

This text was first published on the Greens/EFA website. If there’s one thing that the Greens do not like it’s energy waste. But when we see a scandal coming – like an attempt to stop or weaken the European Parliament’s unfinished investigation into the biggest tax scandal in EU history – the Greens had to […]

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EP tax investigation continued: Strong mandate for new committee to continue tax investigation

The European Parliament’s conference of presidents today agreed to create a new special committee on taxation to last 6 months, with a new mandate based largely on the mandate of the previous committee and keeping the same members. Commenting after the conference of presidents, Greens/EFA president Philippe Lamberts said: “This new committee has a strong […]

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