The EU finance ministers have today defined the final criteria for the identification of tax havens. In November 2016, the EU finance ministers had already agreed on rough criteria for such an EU black list. Today, it has been fixed how to deal with countries without or with extremely low corporate taxes. In September, the […]
Online discussion “Europe Calling” on “A state-run pension fund – remedy against abusive life insurance policies? Lessons from Germany and Sweden”, Wednesday 22. February 2017, 15:00-16:00h
Here you find the Power Point files: Mats Öberg / Udo Philipp. *** Follow this link to directly register for the online discussion: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6230800834033341699 *** I would like to kindly invite you to the next episode of my online discussion series “Europe Calling”, the future of pension products being the next topic. The idea of the “Europe Calling” […]
EU reform: European Parliament calls on governments for action
In three separate reports, the European Parliament has today called for the EU’s treaties to be fully exploited to achieve a more effective European Union. The reports were authored by MEPs from Conservatives, Social Democrats and Liberals. Bresso and Brok, Beres and Böge as well as Verhofstadt, who compromised their texts with Green shadow rapporteurs. […]
MiFID II: Conservative and Liberal alliance fails to prevent damaging food and commodity speculation
The European Parliament has today given approval to rules adopted by the Commission under the framework of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), despite widespread concern that it will allow harmful commodity speculation to continue. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive of 2014 was supposed to introduce strict position limits to curb excessive […]
Madeira Papers: Misuse of free trade zones has to be ended
Research published today by Bayerischer Rundfunk, ORF, Le Monde and the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia confirms the abuse of free trade zones for tax avoidance. The Portuguese island of Madeira offers companies a 5% low tax rate on company profits, even without substantial investments or jobs on the island. Sven Giegold, Economic and Financial Spokesman […]
German Greens have to stand by their opposition to CETA. The vote in the EU parliament is not the end.
Next week on 15 February the European Parliament will vote on the EU-Canada Agreement CETA. After this vote, the agreement will be applied provisionally and must then be ratified by all Parties to the Agreement, including the 28 EU Member States. The disputed additional protection of foreign investors is expressly excluded from provisional application. […]