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"en.20120523.5.3-104-000"2
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"Mr President, the global crisis has spread rapidly and mercilessly to the real economies, having an enormous impact on employment. Seeking to improve this situation, governments throughout Europe have only been able to maintain balance through significant austerity measures.
One of the major causes of the crisis, the financial sector, received sizeable state subsidies, yet we can see that it did not contribute sufficiently to sharing the costs of the crisis. In light of this, the introduction of the financial transaction tax has grown into one of the most important issues today. It has the ability to regulate the massively increased number of financial transactions, as well as speculative transactions, which have become greatly detached from the real economy. It could generate approximately EUR 57 billion in revenues, which could contribute significantly to the stabilisation of the markets and the equitable sharing of burdens.
I believe that we should support the global introduction of a tax on financial transactions. The European Union is the largest financial market in the world today, and for this reason it is our responsibility, too, to take the first steps in this direction."@en1
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