EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Anti Money Laundering

Event Protecting the 2024 Elections : From Alarm to Action

LIBE Trilogue on the collection and transfer of Advance Passenger Information (API)

FISC subcommittee meeting

FISC public hearing on 4 Capital Gains Taxation in the EU

Press conference on on the provisional deal on anti-money laundering package

Trilogue on Regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation (Prüm II)

Press conference on The Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse

TAX Symposium - Opening session

FISC - Tax Symposium 2023 ' The future of taxation in the EU: challenges ahead & changes needed '

EP Plenary session - European green bonds

FISC subcommittee - Public hearing on ' Tackling the role of enablers involved in facilitating tax evasion and aggressive tax planning in the European Union (SAFE) '

FISC Subcommittee public hearing on ' The role of tax policy in controlling inflation and promoting sustainable growth in the context of economic recovery '

FISC Subcommittee public hearing on The work of national tax authorities : ressources, strategies, cooperation

FISC Subcommittee - Exchange of views with the EPPO Chief Prosecutor, Laura KÖVESI on the ' Enhancement of the available tools in the fight against VAT Fraud '

FISC Subcommittee - Public Hearing on ' Case studies on member states national tax policies - Germany: implemented national tax reforms and the combat against aggressive tax schemes '

FISC Subcommittee.- Exchange of views with Achim PROSS, Deputy Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

FISC Special committee - Public Hearing on ' What should the BEFIT proposal look like '

FISC Subcommittee

FISC subcommittee - Exchange of views with Members of the Budget Committee of the Czech national parliament on tax policies in the Commission’s work programme for the years 2022 and 2023 and the priorities of the Czech Presidency

The new rules enhance the integrity of election campaigns and help fight disinformation and foreign interference. The regulation requires political advertising to be clearly labelled, allowing citizens to see why they were targeted, who sponsored the ad, how much they paid and to which elections or referendum it pertains. Sponsoring ads from outside the EU is prohibited in the three-month period leading up to elections. All online political ads are available in an online ad repository. Under the new rules, separate and explicit consent must be obtained to use personal data for targeted ads, while the use of special categories of personal data (e.g. ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation) or minors’ data are banned. MEPs debate.

Transparency and targeting of political advertising: MEPs debate

Rapporteurs Eero HEINÄLUOMA, (S&D, FL), Damien CARÊME, (Greens/EFA, FR), Paul TANG, (S&D, NL), and Ludek NIEDERMAYER (EPP, CZ) hold a press conference on the provisional deal on anti-money laundering package. The Council and Parliament found a provisional agreement on parts of the anti-money laundering package that aims to protect EU citizens and the EU's financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Eero HEINÄLUOMA, (S&D, FL), Damien CARÊME, (Greens/EFA, FR), Paul TANG, (S&D, NL), and Ludek NIEDERMAYER (EPP, CZ) on the provisional deal on anti-money laundering package

The draft report of the European Parliament on EU strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse welcomes and shares the European Commission's proposal’s main aims. Yet the draft report includes a number of new elements. For instance, it includes in its scope search engines and other artificial intelligence systems and limits CSA scanning in E2E encryption to metadata analysis in order to detect suspicious patterns of behaviour without having access to the content of the encrypted communication. Javier ZARZALEJOS (EPP, ES) Rapporteur, Paul TANG (S&D, NL), Hilde VAUTMANS (Renew, BE), Patrick BREYER (Greens/EFA, DE) and Cornelia ERNST (The Left, DE), shadow rapporteurs, hold a press conference on the proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Javier ZARZALEJOS (EPP, ES) rapporteur, Paul TANG (S&D, NL), Hilde VAUTMANS (Renew, BE), Patrick BREYER (Greens/EFA, DE) and Cornelia ERNST (The Left, DE): Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent child sexual abuse

Following the appointment of Fiona Scott Morton as Chief Competition Economist at the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), the members of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) exchange with Margrethe VESTAGER, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition. Questions and answers, first round of political group speakers

Exchange of views with Margrethe VESTAGER, Executive VP of the European Commission in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition: Questions and answers, first round of political group speakers

MEPs debate the EU’s international commitments and the risks of compromising the EU’s green transition. The European Green Deal was presented by the EC in 2019. Its purpose is to transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, ensuring zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, economic growth decoupled from resource consumption, and with no one and nowhere left behind. Parliament debates the risks of compromising the EU’s green transition and the EU’s international commitments including those under the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN Biodiversity Agreement, the latter of which seeks to protect 30% of the earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas and inland waters. MEPs debate (part 2)

Council and Commission statements - Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments, MEPs debate (part 2)

This Monetary Dialogue takes place in a still challenging environment, marked by uncertainty and inflationary pressures. While headline inflation has declined (to 7% in April) mostly due to the ongoing fall of energy prices, core inflation remains high and persistent, mostly driven by the rise in food and services prices. Since the last Monetary Dialogue in March, the ECB's Governing Council has continued on its monetary policy tightening path. The two specific topics of discussion as chosen by ECON (Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs) for this Dialogue are: 1) Interaction between price stability and financial stability; and 2) The effects of high inflation and monetary tightening on the real economy. Questions & answers (part 2)

Monetary Dialogue with Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank: Questions & answers (part 2)

MEPs debate the first EU rules to ensure the traceability of crypto-asset transfers, to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes.

Joint debate - Crypto-assets: MEPs debate

The statement of Paul TANG (S&D, NL), the co-rapporteur for the 6th Anti-Money laundering Directive on behalf of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee.

Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive: statement by Paul TANG (S&D, NL), co-rapporteur, on behalf of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee

Inflation and efforts to curb it are the focus of a plenary debate with European Central Bank President. MEPs concentrate on high inflation rates and divergences in inflation levels across the EU, seeking reassurances from Ms Lagarde about the ECB’s work to tackle it. Second part of the debate.

European Central Bank - annual report 2022: MEPs debate (part 2)

Parliament debate with Council and Commission the decision to add the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gibralta, Mozambique, Tanzania and United Arab Emirates to the list of high-risk third countries for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing purposes.

Urgent update of the EU list of high-risk third countries for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing purposes: MEPs debate

New rules on political advertising. MEPs deabte and vote on new political advertising rules to make EU elections more transparent and resistant to interference. The draft text demands that more information be made available to citizens, authorities and journalists, banning online advert providers from carrying out micro-targeting, and introducing additional sanctions for breaches.

With energy prices skyrocketing and households being put under increasing financial pressure, MEPs discuss the merits and the most effective way of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits. In a resolution adopted in May, MEPs called for such a tax in principle.

Taxing windfall profits of energy companies: MEPs debate

The Commission adopted the Taxonomy Delegated Act on 9 March 2022. It proposes the inclusion, under certain conditions, of specific nuclear and gas energy activities in the list of environmentally sustainable economic activities covered by the so-called EU Taxonomy. First part of the debate.

Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act: MEPs debate (part 1/2)

MEPs debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday on the Commission proposal implementing the international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The draft text calls for a review clause that would allow for the annual revenue threshold above which a multinational corporation would be subject to the minimum tax rate to be revised. MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union.

Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups: MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union

MEPs will debate and vote on ‘citizenship by investment’ schemes, under which third country nationals can get so-called ‘golden passports’. These ones are objectionable ethically, legally, and economically. They also pose serious security risks while undermining the essence of EU citizenship, and should be banned. According to the draft text, third countries with visa-free access to the EU should also end their ‘golden passports’ schemes. Meanwhile, on 25 February in light of Putin’s attack on Ukraine, the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada, and the US committed to taking measures to limit the access of wealthy Russians (with ties to the government) to ‘golden passports’.

Citizenship and residence by investment schemes: MEPs debate

Parliament debates on its position on the Digital Markets Act, which sets rules on what big online platforms will be allowed to do and not do in the EU. First part of the debate.

Digital Markets Act (DMA): MEPS debate (part 2/2)

MEPs debate new law obliging multinationals to publically declare what taxes they pay in each EU country for the benefit of the public and tax authorities, also known as public country-by-country reporting.

Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches: MEPs debate

MEPs discuss with the Commission efforts and rules that should be beefed up to better fight money-laundering, another practice which the Pandora papers also shows is thriving.

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