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Old 01-01-2017, 21:32
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EU Commission President, Jean-Cluade Juncker, when he was leader of Luxembourg, blocked EU investigating tax dodging by multi-nationals.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ce-cables-show

The president of the*European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, spent years in his previous role as Luxembourg’s prime minister secretly blocking EU efforts to tackle tax avoidance by multinational corporations, leaked documents reveal.

Will he be forced to resign? Of course not! The Commission will already be trying to discover who leaked these documents, and if they find who it is, they'll see if they can put them in court.
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Old 01-01-2017, 23:02
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The EU reminds me very much of FIFA and displays a similar moral vacuum.

The EU and Juncker are made for each other.
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:09
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This is the kind of thing which makes me wonder why people worry about things like, say, the price of technology going up, when the amount of money being lifted is incalculable. It's unsustainable. I don't see how we can survive the corruption. There's just too much.
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Old 02-01-2017, 01:46
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So no reason was offered as to why he refused the investigation?

A spokesperson for Luxembourg’s finance ministry refused to comment on the positions previous governments had taken in private EU discussions. “We have no knowledge of the communications you claim to have, and whether they are genuine, and therefore cannot comment on them,” he said.

The spokesperson added: “In recent years Luxembourg has been at the forefront of the global trend towards greater transparency in tax matters and the fight against harmful tax competition.”
Really? And people believe the guff that these people come out with?

I have to credit The Guardian for posting this article. They appear to have at least a shred of integrity left.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:29
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The EU reminds me very much of FIFA and displays a similar moral vacuum.

The EU and Juncker are made for each other.
Meanwhile, it is said that London, supported by its historic institutions, IS NOW THE MONEY-LAUNDERiNG CAPITAL Of THE WORLD. Makes you proud, does it?,
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:35
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The EU reminds me very much of FIFA and displays a similar moral vacuum.
The EU and Juncker are made for each other.
Oh, me too. I'm surprised they haven't held a glittering multi-million Euro twinning ceremony for their oily fatcats.

So no reason was offered as to why he refused the investigation?
Really? And people believe the guff that these people come out with?
I have to credit The Guardian for posting this article. They appear to have at least a shred of integrity left.
I was impressed as well.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:40
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Meanwhile, it is said that London, supported by its historic institutions, IS NOW THE MONEY-LAUNDERiNG CAPITAL Of THE WORLD. Makes you proud, does it?,
I'm not sure if what you've said is evidence of the point you think you're making. Yes, we should probably looking very closely at the reasons. Perhaps we should think about the political leanings of those institutions you mention?
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:51
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Meanwhile, it is said that London, supported by its historic institutions, IS NOW THE MONEY-LAUNDERiNG CAPITAL Of THE WORLD. Makes you proud, does it?,
I fail to see that even in your rather perverse way of seeing the world that my disapproval of wrongdoing by Juncker (allegedly) means I must therefore approve of money-laundering by someone else.

Perhaps your love for all things EU means Juncker can do as he likes?
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:57
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Meanwhile, it is said that London, supported by its historic institutions, IS NOW THE MONEY-LAUNDERiNG CAPITAL Of THE WORLD. ..,
The city is a disgrace to the EU (which arguably facilitated it gaining that status) and therefore should be expelled forthwith, along with the country that contains it.
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Old 02-01-2017, 13:20
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I fail to see that even in your rather perverse way of seeing the world that my disapproval of wrongdoing by Juncker (allegedly) means I must therefore approve of money-laundering by someone else.

Perhaps your love for all things EU means Juncker can do as he likes?
Prime Ministers of countries usually go out of their way to battle for their "national interest" (even if it is questionable whether it really is in the "national interest" or not). Juncker is no different in this regard.

Need I point out that Cameron opposed the Financial Transaction Tax that most EU member states favoured and that we have challenged, in the CJEU, a number of measures that result in stricter regulations for "the City" on more than one occasion?
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:21
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Prime Ministers of countries usually go out of their way to battle for their "national interest" (even if it is questionable whether it really is in the "national interest" or not). Juncker is no different in this regard.

Need I point out that Cameron opposed the Financial Transaction Tax that most EU member states favoured and that we have challenged, in the CJEU, a number of measures that result in stricter regulations for "the City" on more than one occasion?
Indeed another example demolishing this being ruled by Brussels narrative. EU wanted to clamp down on tax dodging national government prevented it.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:31
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Indeed another example demolishing this being ruled by Brussels narrative. EU wanted to clamp down on tax dodging national government prevented it.
Actually, a grand example of how two-tier bureaucracy can play the (Gallic shrug) "Our hands are tied" card. National gov says: "The EU won't let us" on XYZ, EU says: "National govs stop us implementing a noble plan."
It suits both in this fatcat house of cards. What we want is politics with no hiding places.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:03
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No surprise, Luxembourg has been an EU multi-national tax haven for yonks, I expect Juncker will be keeping his head down in the bunker.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:35
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Prime Ministers of countries usually go out of their way to battle for their "national interest" (even if it is questionable whether it really is in the "national interest" or not). Juncker is no different in this regard.

Need I point out that Cameron opposed the Financial Transaction Tax that most EU member states favoured and that we have challenged, in the CJEU, a number of measures that result in stricter regulations for "the City" on more than one occasion?
Perhaps had Juncker not been saying one thing in public and quite another in private whilst also (allegedly) actively scheming with multinationals to evade taxation you might have a point.

Perverse perhaps too is that he was/is being investigated by the organisation he now leads!

I would also suggest that to openly campaign against banking regulation change isn't quite the same as actively assisting in tax evasion behind closed doors in illegal sweetheart deals.
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Old 02-01-2017, 16:30
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Suppose it's going to be back to having a go at UKIP......... Meanwhile, on a lighter note the Lib-Dumbs have been done for "Electoral Fraud".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...nts-totalling/

Fine and referred to the police, nice party.
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Old 02-01-2017, 18:07
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It's idiotic to say he isn't the only one, so we shouldn't hang him out to dry. Why shouldn't he be singled out, if he's done a bad deed?

It is exactly the reason why corruption continue to exist, if it is let slide because everyone else prior hasn't been reprimanded.
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:14
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Prime Ministers of countries usually go out of their way to battle for their "national interest" (even if it is questionable whether it really is in the "national interest" or not). Juncker is no different in this regard.

Need I point out that Cameron opposed the Financial Transaction Tax that most EU member states favoured and that we have challenged, in the CJEU, a number of measures that result in stricter regulations for "the City" on more than one occasion?
The actions of Cameron you mention has been commented on before. This revelation about Juncker is new news, so needed a new thread. It is not an attack on the EU.
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