Thank you Madame Chair, I think we really have a good bunch of amendments as well as a very good basis to work on in terms of the compromises drafted by the Rapporteur. Some very important sectors are clearly getting recognition, through both the text proposed by the Rapporteur, as well by the tabled amendments.
Economic dialogue and exchange of views with Vladislav Goranov, ECOFIN President and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria Thank you Mr Chairman. A welcome to the Minister. Good luck for the Presidency. The most recent assessment of the economic situation shows that the economic expansion in the EU as a whole and in the euro area
Dr Sant intervention: EU rules on State Aid in the aviation sector are intended to prevent government support from distorting competition and effecting trade between Member States. However, at a global level, we note unequal competitive conditions in the aviation market – this includes state subsidies as well as regulatory issues such as labour conditions
What we are doing here has got to be judged politically. Social items in the European Semester should be given more priority. We had grown used to the idea that populist discourse, that populist and extremist movements had grown as a consequence of the 2008 crisis. The austerity… the rigid budgetary rules that were introduced
It is a great pity that the effort that must be carried out to curtail tax evasion and aggressive tax planning has been deviated from what should be its proper goal: that of combatting tax abuses primarily on a national basis. Instead, the real target has become that of curtailing tax competition with a view
It is a great pity that the effort that must be carried out to curtail tax evasion and aggressive tax planning has been deviated from what should be its proper goal: that of combatting tax abuses primarily on a national basis. Instead, the real target has become that of curtailing tax competition with a view
