The European Parliament adopted a report on the Pandora Papers, in the wake of the revelations by the ICIJ and others into global tax avoidance, evasion and money laundering. The report was an initiative of the Greens/EFA Group. For the first time, this report sees the European Parliament condemns the role of the United States […]
Commission work programme 2022: chemicals strategy delayed
The European Commission has presented its work programme for 2022. The programme contains a zero pollution package, but numerous legislative proposals that have already been announced for 2022 are missing, especially in the area of chemical policy. The EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability was adopted by the EU Commission a year ago. It contains numerous […]
Fiscal reform: Commission perpetuates mistakes of past, risking Green Deal
Today, 19 October, the European Commission announces its new communication on the reform of the EU economic governance framework. This is the first step towards a proposal to review the Stability and Growth Pact. However, the proposed questions for the Commission’s consultation fail to address the key issues with the existing fiscal framework and appear […]
Europe Calling “A Traffic Light Coalition?” in Germany – Presentation of the results of the exploratory talks – Mo, 18/10, 7 pm
Aufzeichnung: Dear friends, dear all, The results of the exploratory talks between Social democrats (SPD), Bündnis90/Die Grünen and Liberals (FDP) to form the next German Federal Government have just been presented last Friday with a 12-page paper. Over the last two weeks, I have been working on this as a member of the negotiation group. […]
First Galizia Prize: Investigative research Pegasus Project awarded – consequences from the spying scandal still pending
The first award ceremony of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Investigative Journalism of the European Parliament took place today. The first prize winner is the Pegasus Project of the Forbidden Stories investigative network. The creation of the prize was proposed by Eva Joly and Sven Giegold from the Green Group following the murder of […]
G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting: Minimum tax falls short of solving all problems
At the G20 finance ministers’ meeting today, the global minimum tax for companies will be formally approved. MEP Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group commented: “The approval of the minimum tax by the G20 finance ministers is an important achievement when it comes to curbing global tax dumping. However, further […]