Representatives of the European Commission, national and European financial supervisory authorities and European consumer protection organisations were present for today’s public hearing in the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Committee (ECON) on mis-selling of financial products. The hearing is based on five studies on mis-selling of financial products commissioned by the ECON committee on the […]
Report of our last visit to Malta
Three members of the ad-hoc mission of the European Parliament to Malta made an informal visit to La Valletta on the 1st of June. Ana Maria Gomes (Socialists & Democrats), David Casa (EPP) and Sven Giegold (Greens) held a number of high level exchanges of views. You find our report here: https://sven-giegold.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180513_1junemissionreport_final_final.pdf (Updated on 13 […]
Daphne Caruana Galizia: Murder investigation in serious danger
Three members of the ad-hoc mission of the European Parliament to Malta made an informal visit to La Valletta last Friday. Ana Maria Gomes (Socialists & Democrats), David Casa (EPP) and Sven Giegold (Greens) held a number of high level exchanges of views. We met with Magistrate Anthony Vella (investigating Daphne’s murder), Magistrate Aaron Burgeja […]
New report: Instead of paying fair taxes in Europe, McDonald’s prefers to pay tax consultants
Despite state-aid investigations by the EU Commission, McDonald’s is continuing its strategy of tax avoidance with increased efforts. This is the result of a new report published today by trade unions in the EU and the USA. In 2015 they had shown in a first report how McDonald’s saved more than one billion euros in […]
New: Green changemakers unite!
Dear friends, dear readers, The European Green Party (EGP) has now launched a network of changemakers. Under the name “Tilt!”, changemakers throughout Europe are now networking to launch joint actions and campaigns. The network is aimed at all Greens, but also at all friends of our ideas. My request to you: Join in and register […]
Malta: European Parliament will respond forcefully
As a reaction to new revelations on the rule of law in Malta the European Parliament’s mission to Malta has just met on my initiative this morning in Strasbourg. We decided: to ask for a meeting with our own Conference of Presidents with a view to a debate the situation with the EU Commission and […]