The EESC proposes launching a European pact to effectively combat tax fraud, evasion and avoidance and money laundering. The Committee calls on the European Commission to promote a political initiative involving national governments and the other European institutions in achieving this goal, fostering the consensus needed for this and involving civil society. Cooperation between Member States should be the main pillar of the pact. The Committee urges the European institutions and the Member States to provide the financial and human resources required for the effective implementation of existing European legislation and to agree on a commitment to adopt all necessary new legislative and administrative measures to effectively combat tax offences and bad practices, money laundering and the activities of tax havens. This requires permanent evaluation of the outcome of implementing each measure.
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Opinion
Adopted on 18/09/2020
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ECO/510-EESC-2020-2020-00997Rapporteur:
Plenary session:
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Sep 16, 2020 Sep 18, 2020
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Opinion
Adopted on 18/09/2020
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ECO/506-EESC-2020-00732Referral:
COM(2020) 55 final Rapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Tommaso DI FAZIO (Italy)
Plenary session:
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Sep 16, 2020 Sep 18, 2020
Opinion
Ongoing (updated on 16/10/2020)
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ECO/530-EESC-2020-03369Referral:
COM(2020) 337 final 2020/0154 CODRapporteur:
Plenary session:
555 -
Oct 27, 2020 Oct 29, 2020
Opinion
Adopted on 15/07/2020
Reference:
ECO/523-EESC-2020-02886-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2020) 441 final 2020/0111 NLECOM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 445 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 456 final COM(2020) 459 final 2018/0224 CODRapporteur:
Petru Sorin DANDEA (Workers - GR II/Romania), Tommaso DI FAZIO (/Italy), Petr ZAHRADNÍK (/Czech Republic) (Workers - GR II / Romania)
Plenary session:
553 - Jul 16, 2020
The EESC strongly supports the Commission's proposal – Next Generation EU – as a specific tool for a quick and effective recovery.
The EESC takes a very positive view of the Commission's two main decisions:
- to introduce an extraordinary financial recovery instrument as part of the multiannual financial framework
- to raise common debt, which will be repaid over a long period of time, and prevent the extraordinary financial burden from falling directly on the Member States in the short run.
The EESC strongly welcomes the fact that the newly proposed instrument should be closely coordinated with the European Semester process, and furthermore welcomes the Commission's proposal to introduce additional genuine own resources based on different taxes (revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System, digital taxation, large companies' revenues).
Opinion
Adopted on 15/07/2020
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ECO/509-EESC-2020-00995-00-00-AC-TRARapporteur:
Plenary session:
553 - Jul 16, 2020
While acknowledging the progress made by the Commission in taking account of smaller and less complex banking institutions in its recent regulatory measures, the EESC believes it would be useful to further increase the proportionality of banking rules, without sacrificing the effectiveness of prudential rules.
The EESC endorses the recent decision to push back the date for implementing the Basel III accord, and feels that when the time comes, the new provision on capital requirements should be transposed in a way that caters properly for the diversity of banking business models in Europe.
Opinion
Adopted on 10/06/2020
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ECO/505-EESC-2020-2020-00463-00-00-TRAReferral:
COM(2020) 21 final Rapporteur:
Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ (Spain)
Co-rapporteur:
Petr ZAHRADNÍK (Czech Republic)
Plenary session:
552 -
Jun 10, 2020 Jun 11, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak will have a deep and negative impact on the achievement of the SDGs and the objectives of the European Green Deal. For this reason, the EESC insists on the need to face this urgent threat as soon as possible and focus our recovery efforts without undue delay on the SDGs and the Green Deal. The Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) is the first comprehensive policy measure to fulfil very ambitious targets of carbon neutrality until 2050 in line with the EU Green Deal. While saluting the Green Deal's ambitions, the EESC regrets the lack of consistency with the budgetary allocation within the next Multiannual Financial Framework and also expresses its doubts about the effectiveness of climate mainstreaming in all EU programmes and calls on the Member States to involve civil society organisations in pushing for climate-proof EU spending.
Opinion
Adopted on 19/02/2020
Reference:
ECO/503-EESC-2019-04990Referral:
COM(2019) 652 final Rapporteur:
Plenary session:
550 -
Feb 19, 2020 Feb 20, 2020
The EESC is concerned to note the euro area's economic downturn and the gradual end to a fall in unemployment, wedded to the persistent higher incidence of risk factors affecting economic performance. It is the European Green Deal that the EESC sees as the backbone of the future EU and euro-area economic configuration – the potential start of a fundamental change and a turning point. If managed successfully, it could move Europe up a gear economically and socially; if not, its failure could fatally jeopardise the integrity of the EU.
Opinion
Adopted on 30/10/2019
Reference:
ECO/497-EESC-2019Referral:
COM(2018) 759 final Rapporteur:
Petr ZAHRADNÍK (Czech Republic)
Plenary session:
547 -
Oct 30, 2019 Oct 31, 2019
Opinion
Adopted on 17/07/2019
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ECO/492-EESC-2019-01033Rapporteur:
The absence of economic and social convergence among Member States and regions is a threat to the political sustainability of the European project and all the benefits it has brought to European citizens. Developing economic and labour market resilience with economic, social, environmental and institutional sustainability should be the principle guiding policies. This will foster upwards convergence and fairness in the transition towards a climate-neutral economy while managing the challenges posed by digitalisation and demographic change.
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Toward a more resilient and sustainable European economy - Civil Society Days 2019
Opinion
Adopted on 17/07/2019
Reference:
ECO/493-EESC-2019-01345Referral:
OJ C 353, 18.10.2019, p. 32–38Rapporteur:
Plenary session:
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Jul 17, 2019 Jul 18, 2019
Although considerable progress has already been made towards completing EMU, there is still a need to significantly reinforce all four of its pillars, taking care to maintain the balance between them, as neglecting one or more of these pillars could result in dangerous disparities. Resilience to crises is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for completing EMU: it also requires a positive vision, as set out in Article 3 of the EU Treaty. The EESC generally calls on the European institutions and national governments to take much more ambitious action in the context of EMU reform in order to achieve a more integrated, more democratic and socially better developed Union.