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Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 13/8/2018 13:14

Suppress unanimity rules in social & fiscal matters in the EU
Published

Social policy - Social rights, Policy domain, Institutions, Public Finance - Taxation
In the current state of the Treaties governing the European Union, the rules on the following fields of social policy are subject to unanimity decision by the Council (representing Member States), with no intervention by the Parliament (TFEU Art.153(2)) : (c) social security and social protection of workers; (d) protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated; (f) representation and collective defence of the interests of workers and employers; (g) conditions of employment...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 15/1/2017 17:04

Advertising destroys the democratic role of the press
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Political domain, Digitalisation, Institutions, Culture, Science - Technology - Innovation, Freedoms - Security
"If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold" Most business models on the Internet, and in the media industry, are based on a "free" access to the user - while those who actually pay are the companies purchasing advertising space to which the user is exposed. This dominant business model has a pernicious effect on the role that the press should play in a democracy. Those that actually control the media are not the users, they are the paying customers: the (big and smal...
Inactive working group without members

Fix the failures of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) with Border Adjustment Measures on carbon emissions prices
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Political domain, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale, Scale - Whole EU, Industry, International relations - Trade agreements, Public Finance - Taxation
Imposing a price to carbon emissions in Europe (in the form of tradeable allowances or of a carbon tax) is detrimental to the external competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries. We propose to set up a border adjustment on the price of carbon: the importer pays the internal tax (or purchases emissions allowances), the exporter is being refunded (or sells emissions allowances). The proposed policy is WTO-compatible and relies on well-proven institutions (e.g. VAT) and technologies....
Inactive working group with 1 member

Fix the failures of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) with Border Adjustment Measures on carbon emissions prices
Open to a working group

Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale, Political domain, Industry, Public Finance - Taxation, Scale - Whole EU
Imposing a price to carbon emissions in Europe (in the form of tradeable allowances or of a carbon tax) is detrimental to the external competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries. We propose to set up a border adjustment on the price of carbon: the importer pays the internal tax (or purchases emissions allowances), the exporter is being refunded (or sells emissions allowances). The proposed policy is WTO-compatible and relies on well-proven institutions (e.g. VAT) and technologies....

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