This Wednesday, the court in Luxembourg announced its final verdict in the trial against the whistleblower Antoine Deltour and the co-defendants Raphael Halet and Edouard Perrin. In June 2016, the journalist Edouard Perrin was released from all charges against him whereas Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet were given suspended sentence and a financial penalty respectively. […]
European Parliament takes on financial crime with tough proposals
The European Parliament’s committees on Economic & Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Civil Liberties Justice & Home Affairs (LIBE) voted on the revision of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive on the 28th of February. The report was guided through Parliament by the Dutch Green co-rapporteur Judith Sargentini together with the EPP’s Krišjānis Karins. The majority of MEPs […]
Protection for Whistleblowers: Send the EU Commission your opinion!
Dear friends, Last Friday, the EU Commission finally launched a public consultation on possible legislation to protect whistleblowers in Europe. The Greens/EFA Group has been respectively calling for a directive for months. Our proposal for a directive can be found here: http://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/whistle-blowers-directive/ It is a great success that the European Commission is now reacting to […]
EU finance minister meeting: Blacklist is whitewashing tax havens
The EU finance ministers have today defined the final criteria for the identification of tax havens. In November 2016, the EU finance ministers had already agreed on rough criteria for such an EU black list. Today, it has been fixed how to deal with countries without or with extremely low corporate taxes. In September, the […]
Online discussion “Europe Calling” on “A state-run pension fund – remedy against abusive life insurance policies? Lessons from Germany and Sweden”, Wednesday 22. February 2017, 15:00-16:00h
Here you find the Power Point files: Mats Öberg / Udo Philipp. *** Follow this link to directly register for the online discussion: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6230800834033341699 *** I would like to kindly invite you to the next episode of my online discussion series “Europe Calling”, the future of pension products being the next topic. The idea of the “Europe Calling” […]
EU reform: European Parliament calls on governments for action
In three separate reports, the European Parliament has today called for the EU’s treaties to be fully exploited to achieve a more effective European Union. The reports were authored by MEPs from Conservatives, Social Democrats and Liberals. Bresso and Brok, Beres and Böge as well as Verhofstadt, who compromised their texts with Green shadow rapporteurs. […]