This morning the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament (i.e. the President of Parliament and the political group chairmen and -women, CoP) shortly discussed and then postponed our Green proposal for a full inquiry committee into tax evasion and dumping in Europe following the Luxemburg Leaks revelations.   Prior to the CoP meeting, the […]

Today the European Parliament voted down a motion, sponsored by the Greens, to object to insufficiently prudent rules proposed by the Commission concerning how much investment insurers require to ensure they can pay policyholders. We are convinced that the problems of many insurers in the low interest rate environment may not be covered up by […]

The European Commission has proposed Elke König, head of the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for the post of chair of the Single Resolution Board (SRB). Furthermore, the Commission has adopted proposals for the appointment of the Vice-Chair and the other Board Members of the Single Resolution Board. This decision was preceeded by an informal […]

The speakers of the political Groups in Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Burkhard Balz (EPP coordinator), Elisa Ferreira (S&D coordinator), Sylvie Goulard (ALDE coordinator), Sven Giegold (Greens coordinator), as well as the Parliament’s negotiators of CRD 4, Othmar Karas (rapporteur, EPP), Udo Bullmann (S&D) and Philippe Lamberts (Greens) and Roberto Gualtieri, Chair of […]

Dear Member of the European Parliament, The “Luxembourg leaks” scandal and recent inquiries by the European Commission have brought home the enormously damaging scale of tax avoidance within the European Union which has been facilitated by the tax laws and rulings of EU member states. As European non-governmental organisations working for greater justice in the […]