European Parliament 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

European Parliament

14. April 2021 | de en

Inflation definition of the ECB: Exploding housing costs can no longer be ignored

Dear friends, dear interested, Lately, rents and residential real estate prices in most areas have known only one direction: steeply upwards. But while citizens groan under the exploding costs, officials at the ECB have paradoxically been complaining about too low…

25. March 2021 | de en

Greens call on the European Commission to not put the credibility of the Sustainable Finance rules at risk

Yesterday, 24 March 2021, Bas Eickhout, co-rapporteur of the Taxonomy Regulation and Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group have sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis,…

22. March 2021 | de en

Hearing at the European Parliament: Lessons from the Wirecard case – Tue, 23 March, 13h45 – 15h45

Dear friends, dear interested, On my initiative, the European Parliament’s Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, jointly with the Committee for Legal Affairs, will hold a hearing on lessons from the Wirecard case tomorrow, 23 March. I am particularly happy…

10. March 2021 | de en

Time to take stock: ESMA celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Dear friends, dear interested, The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is celebrating its birthday. 10 years have passed since its establishment on 1 January 2011. Time to take stock. On the occasion of its anniversary, ESMA is organising a public…

5. March 2021 | de en

Crooked dealings: Market abuse in connection with Cum-Ex and co. must be rigorously prosecuted

Dear friends, dear interested, Billions of euros have been looted from public coffers through Cum-Ex and co. These tax fraud schemes all involve crooked dealings on the financial markets. To obtain refunds for unpaid dividend taxes, the fraudsters have to…

12. February 2021 | de en

Auditor in the Wirecard case: Fatal incentive structures need reform

An investigation by the Handelsblatt shows that the auditors at EY no longer “believed in the innocence of the management” of Wirecard already in early 2019. Previously, incriminating material had been leaked to the audit firm by a…