PQ2017

Small companies’ R&D costs in the CCTB

Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) Subject: Small companies’ R&D costs in the CCTB The Proposal for a Council Directive on a CCTB published on 25th October 2016, in its Article 9(3), introduces a yearly super-reduction for R&D expenses, which amounts up to a 100% deducibility if the company

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PQ2017

Gender perspective in EFSI

Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) Subject: Gender perspective in EFSI EFSI projects are meant to stimulate entrepreneurship as well as new productive activities, that would not otherwise materialize, and as such to bring us towards new horizons after the crisis, the EFSI framework does not include a gender

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PQ2017

5G for all European citizens

Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) Subject: 5G for all European citizens As the Mobile World Congress just opened and one year after the Commission white paper on 5G,the EU is still far from having achieved the next generation of broadband networks. Digital technologies in general account for an

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PQ2017

Accountibility of EU funding to Euronews

Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) P-001066-17 Subject: Accountibility of EU funding to Euronews Since 2011, Euronews has received between EUR 26 and 29.5 million of EU funding annually. Nevertheless, it is stated that the broadcaster remains a private company with the Commission having no legal say in the

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PQ2017

Boosting transport links projects in EU border and peripheral areas

Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 130 Alfred Sant (S&D) E-000996/2017 Subject: Boosting transport links projects in EU border and peripheral areas As different as they are in social, cultural and geographical terms, EU border regions share economic problems related to their peripheral condition and negative impacts of structural change, such as rural

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