Call for a new six-pack!
11.6.2013
Question for written answer E-006785-13
to the Commission
Rule 117
Marc Tarabella (S&D) , Monika Flašíková Beňová (S&D) , Edite Estrela (S&D) , María Muñiz De Urquiza (S&D) , Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (S&D) , Enrique Guerrero Salom (S&D) , Richard Falbr (S&D) , Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu (S&D) , Joanna Senyszyn (S&D) , Adam Gierek (S&D) , Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (S&D) , Jean Louis Cottigny (S&D) , Liem Hoang Ngoc (S&D) , Eider Gardiazábal Rubial (S&D) , Antigoni Papadopoulou (S&D) , Spyros Danellis (S&D) , Mojca Kleva Kekuš (S&D) , Mitro Repo (S&D) , Daciana Octavia Sârbu (S&D) , Liisa Jaakonsaari (S&D) , Alejandro Cercas (S&D) , Zigmantas Balčytis (S&D) , Udo Bullmann (S&D) , António Fernando Correia de Campos (S&D) , Antolín Sánchez Presedo (S&D) , Bernadette Vergnaud (S&D) , Véronique De Keyser (S&D) , Anni Podimata (S&D) , Eric Andrieu (S&D) , Georgios Stavrakakis (S&D) , Gilles Pargneaux (S&D) , Raimon Obiols (S&D) , Boris Zala (S&D) , Isabelle Thomas (S&D) , George Sabin Cutaş (S&D) , Catherine Trautmann (S&D) , Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D) , Maria Eleni Koppa (S&D) , Bogusław Liberadzki (S&D) , Patrice Tirolien (S&D) , Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto (S&D) , Olga Sehnalová (S&D) , Katarína Neveďalová (S&D) , Sylvana Rapti (S&D) , Frédéric Daerden (S&D) , Barbara Weiler (S&D) , Roberto Gualtieri (S&D) , Salvatore Caronna (S&D) , Silvia-Adriana Ţicău (S&D) , Francesco De Angelis (S&D) , Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón (S&D)
Europe appears to be at an impasse in many respects, a prisoner of its austerity strategy, deaf to the calls of economists and blind to people’s suffering. Here are a number of fair, simple, and efficient proposals to establish a new six-pack, one that would consider the citizen not as a cash machine but as a central component of a new, more humane and more social Europe: a Europe of Progress. We want:
- 1.A Europe of fair trade that fights against the social, fiscal and environmental dumping of our import practices! Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
- 2.A Europe that brings workers closer together and that fights competition amongst workers by establishing a minimum wage or a minimum guaranteed income! Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
- 3.A Europe that finances a part of the sovereign debt in order to save billions of euros in interest paid to banks, without involving a financial contribution from citizens! Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
- 4.A Europe that separates investment banks from commercial banks, and eliminates tax havens, so that money may once again serve the economy and not vice versa. Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
- 5.A Europe that spearheads an industrial policy capable of saving our jobs and reviving major sectors of activity, rather than allowing the invisible hand of competition and multinational companies to destroy our tools and expertise. Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
- 6.A Europe that taxes financial transactions to fight against speculation and implements tax harmonisation, particularly through the introduction of a minimum tax for businesses. Is the Commission really aiming to change things, to go beyond the current model and to present new proposals?
OJ C 47 E, 19/02/2014