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"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Preda for the report and for finding consensus on it. I just want to focus on one aspect of policy coherence for development: that is tax issues.
Mr Preda mentioned the agreement on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and that, of course, was underpinned by the agreement on the financing for development. A big part of that is domestic resource mobilisation by developing countries, but we will not achieve that unless we see big changes in the international tax system: unless we close down tax loopholes and illicit financial flows.
Thabo Mbeki came to the Committee on Development a few weeks ago and he told us how staggering amounts of money leak out of Africa into tax havens and into European bank accounts. This has to stop, and that is why we have a chance in this Parliament to vote to change these rules: to make sure that African countries, and other developing countries, can raise their own financing for development, and to make sure that we have this Special Committee on the Panama papers, so that policy coherence for development is much more than a box-ticking exercise, and leads to genuine change."@en1
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