Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-12-Speech-1-151"
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"Mr President, I hope that Parliament, when it votes on Mr Bersani’s excellent report, will give you its strong support for the discussions before you, Commissioner, be it in the Council or within the College of Commissioners itself. I am aware of how much progress we have made since this matter has been up for discussion and I know that you are considering enhanced cooperation procedures. Let us hope that we will not be forced to go down that route. But we think that your approach to this subject and your desire to make real progress are very positive signs.
My second comment would be that taxation can influence the internal market, and all those here who spend their whole time telling us to make the internal market work better should concern themselves with the fact that excessive tax competition can have a fundamental impact, particularly in terms of cross-border effects, on the operation of the internal market.
In a way, this report presents us with a paradox: I hope that we can reach agreement on the Bersani report, but it nevertheless conceals some differences of opinion. Whether you support tax competition or harmonisation of tax rates, we all need this harmonisation of the tax bases.
So, let us take this first step together, in the knowledge that - as we saw during the expert hearings - there is still much to be done regarding tax rates and that thinking in terms of a range does not completely rule out any competition. It simply enables us to create healthy, viable conditions for the internal market, in line with the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy."@en1
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