Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-06-Speech-2-500"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-07-06"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100706.31.2-500"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-07-06-Speech-2-5012
lpv:speaker	lp:Algirdas Šemeta2
lpv:spoken text	"I would not like to comment on whether Britain would be in a better situation outside the European Union. I will leave the question to the comments of those who made them. Concerning issues of harmful tax competition, tax evasion and tax fraud and concerning Norway, we are in a negotiation process with Norway. There is quite substantial progress in this area and I hope that we will be able to come to an agreement with them on those particular matters. As I said in my introduction, we also asked the Council to give us a mandate to negotiate a similar agreement with Switzerland. We are now dealing with the current package, which includes three directives, and the issue of Lichtenstein. Only after these parts of the package are resolved will we be able to get a mandate for the negotiations with Switzerland and other European countries which are not members of the European Union. With regard to Switzerland, we are also waiting concerning another topic – the application of the code of conduct in business taxation matters. Quite recently, the Council asked us to start a dialogue with the Swiss authorities on their views regarding the application of the principles of the code of conduct in Switzerland. The Commission started this dialogue last week. Sometime in the future, I will be able to inform you of the progress in this area."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Algirdas Šemeta,"1 "Member of the Commission."1
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