Sven Giegold

Month: February 2020

Europe Calling “Beyond the broken promise: How to end state aid for failing banks?” on Monday, March 2nd at 8:00 pm CET

Recording here: By loading the video, you accept YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unlock YouTuben Dear friends, dear interested, After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, politicians around the world promised reforms to ensure that taxpayers’ money would never again be used for bank bailouts. Today we have to note that […]

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Europe Calling “The Triumph of Injustice: How we can end tax havens and tax dumping” – Thursday, 27 February – 7pm

Recording, slides and translation below Slides by Gabriel Zucman & Catherine Olier. | Simultaneous translation here. By loading the video, you accept YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unlock YouTuben   Dear friends, dear interested,   This time I am looking forward to a particularly exciting guest in my webinar series “Europe Calling”: Prof. […]

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Documentation: Breakfast “Money laundering and financial crime”

Dear friends, Dear interested, The European Commission is set to publish a new action plan to combat money laundering on 25 March. The action plan is to be followed by long overdue legislative proposals. Today, at a joint event in the European Parliament, together with Wim Mijs, Chief Executive Officer of the European Banking Federation […]

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Peter Simon switches to the German Savings Bank Association: This revolving door turned too fast

Since Wednesday, Peter Simon (SPD) is the representative of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) to the European Union. According to president Helmut Schleweis, the DSGV wants to intensify its relations with the EU institutions with the finance policy maker Simon. Simon was an MEP for the German Social Democrats from 2009 to […]

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European Green Deal: German government lobbying for automobile industry

Dear friends, dear interested, The European Green Deal is not even three months old, but the German government is already trying to water down the high ambitions. In the Green Deal, the European Commission announced it will adapt all climate-related laws to the goal of climate neutrality as quickly as possible. In addition to laws […]

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