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    Plenary Round-up

    Modernisation of public procurement Initiative report by Green MEP Heide RühleCommittee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)Plenary debate Monday 24 October - vote Tuesday 26 October 2011 The European Parliament adopted with a huge majority a report...
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    Eurozone summit

    Commenting on the early morning agreement by the summit of Eurozone leaders on Greek debt, bank recapitalisation and EU rescue funding, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit said: “The deal reached last night will likely be enough to pull the Eurozone back from the brin...
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    Corporate tax

    The European Parliament today adopted by a large cross-party majority a report by Green draftsman Sven Giegold on a recast of the legislation governing the taxation of distributions from subsidiaries to parent companies (1). The legislation aims to prevent the double (or multiple) taxation of profit...
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    Tax agreements

    EU tax commissioner Semeta highlighted major flaws with the bilateral tax agreements concluded by the UK and Germany with Switzerland at a debate in the European Parliament last night (1). The Greens welcomed his response to an oral question - which underlined problems with the applicable rates of w...
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    State of play of the negotiations of the EU Council concerning the economic crisis

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    Co-Presidents' session briefing

    Greens/EFA co-presidents Dany Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms presented the key issues of the plenary session and of the European agenda for the Greens/EFA group
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    Press release |

    Simplifying public procurement would help Welsh businesses

    Plaid MEP Jill Evans has welcomed calls by the European Parliament to simplify rules on public procurement to make it easier for small and medium sized businesses to win public sector contracts.   MEPs have been voting today ahead of an EU law due in December to revise publ...
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    Country-by-country reporting

    The European Commission today set out proposals to revise EU rules on accounting and transparency (1). The Greens welcomed the proposals as a first step to improving transparency on the payments and accountability of large corporations but regretted that the Commission did not go further both in ter...
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    Eurozone summit

    Commenting on the open-ended outcome of this weekend's EU and Eurozone summit, Greens/EFA co-president Rebecca Harms said: "The most important lesson of this latest crisis summit with no definitive outcome must be that the EU needs to finally commit to a proper common economic policy. This endl...
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    Eurozone crisis

    EU and Eurozone heads of state are set to meet this weekend with expectations high that the summit will deliver a comprehensive set of solutions to the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Ahead of the summit, the Greens outlined their priorities for the comprehensive package of solutions that urgently needs to...