Text tabled : A6-0338/2008

  Kurt Joachim Lauk (PPE-DE). – (DE) Madam President, the Rasmussen report is entitled ‘hedge funds and private equity’. If we look at the content of this report more closely, it has virtually nothing to do with hedge funds and private equity any more, but now rightly refers to the financial institutions and financial players as a whole. This is important. We have proposed a list of items for regulating the financial markets and eliminating the chaos in these markets. I am pleased that Mr Rasmussen largely adopted our position in the negotiations with us.