{"id":4950,"date":"2009-09-30T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:56:36","slug":"eva-joly-makes-her-mark-in-the-eu-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/30\/eva-joly-makes-her-mark-in-the-eu-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Joly makes her mark in the EU Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparliament.com\/no_cache\/latestnews\/news-article\/newsarticle\/senior-mep-calls-for-crackdown-on-eu-tax-havens\/\">EU Politics News - theParliament.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>The chair of parliament's development committee has called for tough action against multinational companies who \"seriously harm\" poor countries through their use of tax havens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eva Joly, a former magistrate who has gained a reputation for campaigning against fraud and corruption, made her comments at a debate in Brussels on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said tax havens were used as a means of tax evasion but the \"real problem\" was the funding and resources she says is subsequently denied to often developing countries, such as those in Africa and India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eva is an astonishing woman who has now joined the parliament. She has lost none of her fire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Politics News &#8211; theParliament.com. The chair of parliament&#8217;s development committee has called for tough action against multinational companies who &#8220;seriously harm&#8221; poor countries through<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/30\/eva-joly-makes-her-mark-in-the-eu-parliament\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,80,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-europe","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}