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"Madam President, I will be very brief, as I have already spoken at length just now.
I would like firstly to thank Mrs Raeva and Mrs Siitonen, and also the Members, for their speeches and contributions to this text, and to say to Mr Kovács that, in my opinion, I have understood what he said.
However, I think that a strong signal tomorrow from the European Parliament on the question of the scope, on the question of banking secrecy, and on the question of the list of tax havens will be a valuable help to the Council, especially if, in future, we need to negotiate new agreements with third countries.
Now I would like to finish with the criticism – the gentle criticism, I might add – levelled at Mr Kovács and I by Mrs Lulling. She criticised us for ‘mixing the sheep and the goats’, even though she did so very gently. I would like to say to her that I think, tomorrow, this Parliament, whilst it sometimes mixes the sheep and the goats, will be able to distinguish between the general interest and private interests, and I hope that we will thus have contributed to stepping up the fight against tax evasion."@en1
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