In the spotlight: a global corporate tax adopted by two-thirds of the world's countries
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OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann (left) and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at OECD headquarters in Paris on June 25, 2021 © REUTERS - POOL
By: Norbert Navarro
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It's a real fiscal big bang.
After some ten years of negotiations, 130 countries representing more than 90% of the world's wealth produced concluded this Thursday, July 1, an agreement establishing a minimum tax of 15% on companies at the global level, country by country, and a tax on superprofits of the 100 most profitable global groups.
Seeing it as an "
earthquake
" and calling it "
historic
", the newspaper
L'Opinion
welcomes this agreement which marks "
the most important change in the rules of international taxation for a hundred years
".
The new Catalan regional president calls for the organization of a referendum on independence
In Spain, after the first official meeting between Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the new Catalan regional president, the latter persists and signs. He still calls for the organization of a referendum on the independence of the rich province of Catalonia: "
I defend the path of a negotiated referendum because it is the one that can obtain the most support and make independence possible
" , says the moderate independentist Pere Aragonès to the newspaper
Le Monde
.
Successor of Carlos Puigdemont, the new Catalan regional president wants to be pragmatic, because after this first meeting which had been preceded by pardons granted to nine Catalan independence leaders imprisoned for more than three years, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez insisted that the Socialists in the power in Spain will “
never
”
accept a
self-determination referendum in Catalonia.
Le Monde
welcomes "
the hope of appeasement
" between Madrid and Barcelona, the path of compromise being "
not only desirable for reconciliation with Madrid;
it is just as important for the reconciliation between Catalans
”.
On the front page in France, the vaccination obligation
For caregivers, but maybe not that… The French are in favor. Revealed this Thursday by the dailies
Le Parisien, Sud-Ouest
and
Le Progrès
, the upcoming compulsory vaccination for healthcare workers was confirmed to AFP by a government source, who told this press agency that a bill is in preparation for this purpose. For its part, the newspaper
Liberation
reports a letter sent by the Prime Minister to the presidents of parliamentary groups and in which Jean Castex asks them to let him know by Tuesday July 6 if they believe that this vaccination obligation should be extended "
more widely
". Which leads
Liberation
to ask the question:
"
Why not, therefore, to the entire population or to other professional categories
”?
According to an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
and France Info, 58% of French people are in favor of compulsory vaccination "
for all
".
And six in ten French people believe that, concerning vaccination, the government's action "
is effective
".
Suspicion of insider trading around the takeover bid of BPCE bank on its subsidiary Natixis
Significant volumes of transactions in Natixis shares have been identified.
Publicly, the stock exchange policeman did not say a word.
According to
Mediapart, “
a serious suspicion of insider trading hovers around the withdrawal operation (from the listing of the banking subsidiary Natixis) launched by (its parent company) BPCE, speculators having long been aware of the the bank's plan to withdraw its subsidiary from the Stock Exchange and take advantage of it
”.
It being specified that BPCE has launched a takeover bid on its subsidiary Natixis - an offer which ended on Thursday - the Autorité des marchés financiers is "
particularly [discreet] on the movements that occurred in Natixis shares on the 8th last February […] and undoubtedly well before,
”points out
Mediapart
.
According to this online newspaper, "
throughout [this] day [of February 8], intense speculation took place around the Natixis title,"
a report from the financial agency Bloomberg published on the night of February 8 to 9 and reported by
Mediapart
"
suggesting that speculators were informed that BPCE was going to announce in the hours following its takeover bid on Natixis and had therefore placed orders on the market to collect as many securities as possible and make, neither seen nor known, a beautiful financial tumble
”.
Speculators?
In the management committee, a trade unionist from BPCE, spoke of “
movements
” on the stock market observed “
on 30 million shares
”.
The Autorité des marchés financiers refuses to comment, further states
Mediapart
.
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