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Time for the Council to shell out some justice and fight tax avoidance
- jruohonen 3y agoOnce again a beautiful example on how the so-called democracy works w.r.t. the Council: "With a majority of 99.7%, the European Parliament adopted the Unshell Directive, a law to crack down on the shell game played by the global rich and big corporates to dodge taxes via letterbox companies." "After diluting the proposal beyond recognition, the Swedish Council presidency failed to put even this watered-down version forward to the EU finance ministers at their meeting in May."