On Thursday 19 April, MEPs approved by a sizeable majority (445 votes to 104 with 38 abstentions) the annual own-initiative report on competition policy, authored by Ramon Tremosa i Balcells (ALDE, Spain), which calls for measures to tackle aggressive tax planning to ensure fair competition on the single market.
The text recommends that market players pay their fair share of tax where they make their profits, in reference to dossiers recently dealt with by the Commission to this effect,...