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"Mr President, Mr Wammen, Commissioner, we took the initiative to hold this debate precisely because we believe that combating tax evasion and tax avoidance are, and must be, an integral part of national and European strategies to get out of the crisis. That is because tax evasion and tax avoidance make cost-sharing socially unfair and undermine fiscal targets for economic and social reasons.
It is irrational for us to take action solely in order to deepen fiscal policy, without at the same time taking action to converge and coordinate fiscal policy; otherwise, fiscal competition between us will increase and the fiscal problems of countries in difficulty will worsen. It is not just a question of fiscal competition between us; it is also the capital flight abroad to Switzerland and to other Member States of the European Union that have retained the banking veil.
Obviously, each country is responsible for tax evasion; the same applies to the fiscal crisis. However, that does not prevent the Council and the Commission from adopting more stringent rules and policies to combat the problem."@en1
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