Sven Giegold

Briefing: FATCA and Data Protection

FATCA is the most effective tool in the fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance. For a long time, civil society (development organisations, Tax Justice Network, Attac…) and the Greens have been fighting for reciprocal automatic exchange of information in tax matters. It is sad to admit: All efforts of the EU have not got […]

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The breakthrough: EU finance ministers stand together against tax havens and for automatic exchange of information

It is music to my ears. The finance ministers of the six largest EU countries Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and Spain held a memorable press conference in Dublin on Friday night. Their requests have been put forward by Attac and the Tax Justice Network since their establishment more than 10 years ago: Closure […]

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Offshore Secrets: Time is ripe for a European FATCA

Journalists from over 30 countries have published data of approximately 130,000 persons involved in tax haven companies or activities aiming at tax evasions or avoidance (1). This gave a new boost to the debate on tax justice and untransparent international financial transactions, which had last been triggered by the FATCA initiative in the US.(2) FATCA […]

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Breakfast on insurance mediation: Benefitting from the potential of Scandinavian experiences

On March 20th 2013, Sven Giegold MEP (Greens) and Olle Schmidt MEP (Liberals) invited to a working breakfast to discuss how we can benefit from the Scandinavian market structures and remuneration policies in insurance mediation, against the background of the recast of the the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD II). We learnt from the interventions that […]

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World Social Forum in Tunis

Dear friends, From 26 until 31 March, I will attend the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia. The first World Social Forum took place in 2001. It is designed to create a platform for the exchange of ideas between people from all over the world. The program offers a huge diversity of topics and covers issues […]

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Investment fund rules (UCITS)
Bonuses for fund managers to be capped among wider investor protection in new draft EU rules

The European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee today voted to revise draft EU legislation on investment funds (the UCITS directive), with a total sector value of almost € 6.3 trillion in funds. The vote on the legislation, which is being shepherded through the European Parliament by Green draftsperson/rapporteur Sven Giegold, also includes provisions on […]

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