On financial secrecy, a lot of progress has been made on enhancing financial transparency through the successive anti-money laundering directives. Since the Council has started working on this issue, we have reached quite some progress in the area of fighting evasive practices over the last few years, be it in the area of money laundering or in the field of taxation. The EU will continue to strongly support work in this field. But this revelation shows once more how important the ongoing efforts in the area of fighting tax fraud and evasion remain.
Of course, it is not up to the Council to pronounce itself on any specific case mentioned in the most recent revelation. The most recent data gathered in the context of the Pandora Papers should be the subject of further analysis by all the institutions concerned, in particular Member States, to find out whether illegal operations have indeed taken place. Revelations of this kind are not new, and have in fact regularly appeared in the media in the past few years. – Madam President, dear Commissioner, honourable Members, thank you for the opportunity to discuss here in the plenary the so-called Pandora Papers. – Il-punt li jmiss fuq l-aġenda huwa d-dibattitu dwar id-dikjarazzjonijiet tal-Kummissjoni u tal-Kunsill dwar Pandora Papers: implikazzjonijiet fuq l-isforzi biex jiġu miġġielda l-ħasil tal-flus, l-evażjoni tat-taxxa u l-evitar tat-taxxa ( 2021/2922(RSP)).Īnže Logar, President-in-Office of the Council. Afacerea Pandora: implicații asupra eforturilor de a combate spălarea banilor, evaziunea fiscală și evitarea obligațiilor fiscale (dezbatere)