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"Mr President, I would like to start by thanking Mr Schmidt for his excellent report and for the constructive cooperation that we enjoyed. He made reference to the euro crisis – the debt crisis – which compels us all to consider how we can better integrate our economy. It goes without saying that, when it comes to taxation, too, we need to better integrate with each other, especially within the euro area, but also within the European Union as a whole.
For my group, this implies fairer taxation. It means eliminating tax evasion and avoidance internally within the European Union, but, of course, it also means a joint strategy for the European Union vis-à-vis third countries. In that connection, we are also arguing for a joint European approach to solving this problem, in other words, agreements between the European Union and Switzerland and other third countries, rather than between the individual Member States of the Union and countries like Switzerland.
Of course, we also need measures such as a shifting of taxation from work to the environment and assets, Community taxation instruments such as a financial transaction tax and, finally, a harmonisation of tax scales, specifically with regard to corporation tax. I think that that is very important indeed."@en1
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