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    Press release |

    Greens/EFA win vote to fight financial speculation

    Members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted on the MiFID and MiFiR files, and supported Greens/EFA calls for an end to financial speculation. Financial speculation is driving up prices of food and energy for consumers, while multinationals are continuing to profit from global crises.
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    Iceberg / CC0 Annie Spratt
    Study |

    Climate risks and debt sustainability

    Read our study on the impact climate change has on debt sustainability. It investigates the trade-off between increasing deficit, with a faster climate change reduction, and a more conservative approach, with slower adaption to climate change.
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    © European Union 2022 - Source : EP
    Phillipe Lamberts
    Press release |

    Commission reform of fiscal rules welcome but could be more ambitious

    The European Commission presented its reform of the EU’s fiscal rules. The proposal addresses important shortfalls in the current rules, but falls short in addressing pro-cyclicality and the need to strengthen green and social Investments. The Greens/EFA Group are calling for a fundamental shift in the EU’s economic governance framework.…
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    Euro bank notes / CC0 Markus Spiske
    Euro bank notes / CC0 Markus Spiske
    Study |

    An EP-ECB interinstitutional agreement on monetary policy

    To inform the deliberations of the EP facing the ECB, this reports provides a legal and political analysis of existing accountability practices, while outlining scope for improvement, both by means of an IIA as well as through non-formal changes to ECB-EP interactions.
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    Letter |

    Greens/EFA MEPs write to EU Commission on minimum tax

    On 19 May, the European Parliament passed its opinion on the directive on minimum effective taxation by a large majority. Greens/EFA can no longer accept that the implementation of the internationally agreed OECD pillar 2 is watered down and delayed in the Union because of individual Member States who put their narrow interests before th…
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    European Parliament in Brussels
    Press release |

    MEPs to vote on global minimum corporate tax rate for multinationals

    MEPs will debate and vote on the need for EU Member States to agree to proceed on the OECD framework for a minimum corporate tax rate. So far Poland is blocking the Council and holding the EU back in moving forward as a block on the international agreement, which would see a minimum corporate tax rate of 15% for large multinationals. Next…
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    Policy Paper |

    Inflation: the high price to pay for Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels

    In the run-up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, rising prices in the euro area were catalyzing a great amount of political attention. Inflation peaked to 5.1% in January and 5.9% in February, putting the European Central Bank (ECB) under the spotlight. Hawkish voices in the political arena, despite being the minority, got progressively loud…
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    Event |

    Russian Oligarchs: What we don’t know about what the rich own

    Since the war in Ukraine started, countries have confiscated millions in Russian oligarchs’ assets. But this is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the millions of euros that they own offshore and that have been crucial in sustaining Putin's regime for decades.
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    News |

    Plenary Flash 7 - 10 March 2022

    On the agenda of the plenary : the EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion on Ukraine, the deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the report on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the Eur…
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    News |

    Debriefing of the November plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 2022 budgetary procedure, the outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow, the critical materials INI report, taxonomy, condemning Police Violence against Romani people, the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Belarus debate and address by Sviatlana Tsikhanousk…