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"Mr President, Ms Vestager, Commissioner, I would like to thank the Commission for having had the courage to table this proposal and the rapporteur and shadow rapporteurs for trying to work on it.
Of course, if we only dealt with issues on which there was already a consensus, there would be less work to do in this House. If we only dealt with issues on which there was general agreement from the start, on the basis of a notion of the internal market which entails, at times, simply taking full advantage of it without ever wanting to play the solidarity and level playing field card, that would be much easier. However, we live in the real world.
I would invite you to reflect on the following. We are making an effort in the euro area and throughout the European Union to consolidate public finances. My feeling is that much greater importance is always attached to the ‘expenditure’ component than to the ‘receipts’ component. However, to balance a budget, it is important to reduce expenditure and to manage it properly, but it is also important that receipts flow into the coffers of the Member States.
I invite you to consult the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report on the growing inequalities in Europe, and I would truly recommend that you read it. It is not a document produced by a far-left outfit. It is a document produced by the OECD showing that the increase in inequalities, which jeopardises political stability in our countries, is, in part, linked to the fact that there has been a shortage of tax revenues for a number of years. This is a major problem and, regarding this issue, I would say that the procedure for introducing a financial transaction tax is secondary. There are always manoeuvres to focus on small details, to try to exempt one category or another or exclude one country or another, and to turn a blind eye to what is happening right now in our societies, namely, a scandalous rise in inequalities linked to the fact that large companies and rich individuals no longer pay tax."@en1
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