Written Statements

The UK’s withdrawal from the EU

The impasse that faces both the EU and the UK results form the deeply flawed method by which the Brexit negotiations have been conducted. These have been designed in two sequences: first to establish the conditions for an orderly withdrawal; then those of a future relationship. Aggravated by huge political fractures on the British side,

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Written Statements

Digital Taxation

It is right that digital business, especially that conducted by the GAFA, be taxed on the same lines as businesses in other sectors of economic activity in the place where they conduct business. Given the nature of digital activity, where value is being added, where costs are being assumed and where profits are being made

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Written Statements

Minimum income for a fair Europe: a right for citizens

Private consumption has grown. Exports and investment have increased. Unemployment continues to fall and it has gotten closer to pre-crisis levels. Profits of corporations have increased. Public deficit and debt levels have been largely brought under control. Not so the share of the economic cake being enjoyed by the working and middle classes; there the

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