Economy & Finance Archive - Sven Giegold - Mitglied der Grünen Fraktion im Europaparlament

Sven Giegold

Member of the European Parliament – Greens/EFA Group

Speaker of the German Green Delegation

Economy & Finance

25. September 2020 | de en

Job opening: Parliamentary Assistant for Economic and Monetary Affairs in my Brussels office

Dear friends, dear interested, I am looking to strengthen the team in my Brussels office for the work in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. I am looking forward to receiving applications! Please forward this job offer to anyone…

24. September 2020 | de en

Commission proposal on crypto assets and Libra: Regulation must solve money laundering problems, not taboo them

Today, departing Finance Commissioner Dombrovskis presented a legislative package on the digitalization of the financial system. This includes in particular a new strategy for payment services and a legislative proposal for the digital resilience of the financial sector. The…

24. September 2020 | de en

ESMA Report Cum-Ex/Cum-Cum: Preventing tax theft through European rules

Dear friends, dear interested, Today the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued its report on Cum-Ex / Cum-Cum & Co (euphemistically called “dividend arbitrage”). The report was requested by the European Parliament on…

23. September 2020 | de en

Start of the Tax Subcommittee in the European Parliament: Lift the blockade for tax justice in Europe

Today, Sept. 23 at 9am, the constitutive meeting of the new Tax Subcommittee of the European Parliament took place. In this meeting the committee Chairpersons were elected. The Chairman is Paul Tang (S&D). Kira Peter-Hansen is the third Vice-Chair…

21. September 2020 | de en

Webinar “A zero tolerance policy towards tax dumping & money laundering” with the Italian and German Finance Minister – Wed, 30/9/2020, 7-8 pm CEST

Register right here! Dear friends, dear interested, Negotiations are currently in full swing on the next EU budget and the Corona reconstruction programme. The EU has never seen such a large and ambitious budget. But the Corona crisis has also…

20. September 2020 | de en

FinCENfiles: Globalisation of crime needs European response

After months of research in 88 countries with more than 400 journalists involved, the International Network of Investigative Journalists ICIJ together with the US investigative media company BuzzFeed today published a new leak: For the first time, reports of…