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"The Theato report on combating fraud reveals that the Central European Bank, no doubt the better to prove its celebrated independence, thought it inappropriate to subscribe to the Interinstitutional Agreement relating to OLAF. The report takes up a number of ideas contained in the European judges’ Geneva Appeal, such as the setting up of a European Public Prosecutor. Unfortunately, it does not adopt the most important proposal, to make any financial transaction involving a tax haven illegal. Finally, as if all the better to emphasise the ridiculous dispossession of the representatives of universal suffrage, the report charges the President of the European Parliament with forwarding its proposals to an Intergovernmental Conference which will already be at an end when this vote is taken.
Since nothing was decided in this area in Nice, we are doing what the report has already invited us to do and interpreting this lack of decision “as laxity and indifference in relation to fraud in Europe”. In spite of its limitations, we shall vote in favour of this report as one way, admittedly too timid a way, of rebelling against the neo-liberal rationale according to which the taxation of profit is by definition an unwarranted deduction, in connection with which it is legitimate to commit fraud."@en1
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