Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 30 January 2020 - Brussels

Commission Work Programme 2020 (debate)

  Marek Belka (S&D). – Mr President, I’d like to continue this issue of the European Union’s fight on tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance. As we know, the discussion on this issue is now centred on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). That’s fine with us. That’s fine with me. The problem is that we cannot hope for an outcome of these discussions that will be satisfactory for us. Some OECD countries will be against it. Well, one thing that we can do is make our European members of the OECD find common positions, which is not always the case. So let me call on the European Commission to use its political leverage to find a common position in the EU and strongly influence the outcome of the OECD discussions.