EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Taxation

Parliament agrees on post-Panama Papers recommendations, less ambitious than previously

Brussels, 13/12/2017 (Agence Europe)

After a year and a half of investigations into the Panama Papers scandal, the problems appeared when the finishing line was in sight. The European Parliament's vote on the recommendations of the committee of investigation of the same name, on Wednesday 13 December, saw the MEPs, under the impetus of the right wing, take a step backwards over a number of points: all of the amendments of the EPP group to the text as adopted by the parliamentary committee were approved.

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