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A delegation from the Economic and Monetary affairs committee has just concluded a mission to Washington D.C. at the end of which Aurore Lalucq, the committee's Chair, said the following:

A delegation of MEPs of the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee will be in Washington D.C. between Monday and Wednesday.

Ministers hold a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Irish Presidency of the Council in the relevant policy fields.

On Thursday, plenary backed talks with the Council on a digital euro proposal that would offer citizens a secure way to reduce reliance on non-EU providers.

The proposals include, among other ideas, a consolidated corporate tax base, standardised tax returns and simplified value added tax procedures.

Investment and technological development must stay in the EU, with payment innovation and competitive financial markets, argues Parliament in a text adopted on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, MEPs adopted proposals for a tax framework for the EU financial sector to reduce fragmentation and tax avoidance.

MEPs have proposed tweaks to EU competition policy to clamp down on US tech giants, promote EU champions, and improve the EU’s strategic autonomy.

The digital euro would offer citizens and businesses a private, secure and innovative way to pay, while reducing reliance on non-EU providers.

On Monday afternoon MEPs quizzed the President of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, with a strong focus on the inflationary trends and the effects of geo-political tensions.