Brussels, 04/03/2011
“We would highly welcome the Parliament’s clear resolve on an FTT at EU level. This would send a clear signal to European citizens and voters that it is not only working families and public budgets who will foot the enormous bill of the financial and economic crisis. Parliamentarians must not fall back behind the strong stand they have taken to date in demanding that the financial sector make a fair and substantial contribution to the crisis. ETUC will not accept any further excuse not to act with the argument that such a tax should first be adopted at a global level”, said John Monks, General Secretary of ETUC.
On 8 March, the European Parliament will vote on a recommendation to introduce an FTT at EU level. ETUC and its affiliates in the 27 EU Member States have been campaigning for financial sector taxation for more than two years:
- http://europeansforfinancialreform.org
- http://www.financialtransactiontax.eu