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Ministry Werner Gatzer
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
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Ministry Visitors' Service
The visitors’ service welcomes groups who are interested in the ministry’s work. Visitors have the opportunity to talk directly to ministry staff (in German or, where possible, in English) and learn more about the ministry’s tasks, working methods and goals.
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ECOFIN Video conference of ECOFIN ministers on 6 October 2020
The video conference of the ECOFIN minsters took place on 6 October 2020 and was chaired by former German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. Topics addressed included the following:
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ECOFIN Video conference of ECOFIN ministers on 4 November 2020
At the meeting of ECOFIN ministers on 4 November 2020, agenda items included the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, the action plan to tackle non-performing loans in Europe, the European Fiscal Board’s annual report, the European Semester and the G20 and IMF meetings in October.
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ECOFIN Video conference of ECOFIN ministers
At the meeting of ECOFIN ministers on 1 December 2020, agenda items included administrative cooperation in the field of taxation, work on international taxation, Council conclusions on the European Commission’s action plan on the capital markets union, the Commission’s autumn forecast, and the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors on 13 November 2020, among other issues.
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beirat Report by the Advisory Board
In the debate over efforts to reform the EU budget, repeated calls are made (a) to ensure more transparent and fairer burden-sharing and (b) to replace the widespread juste-retour (“just returns”) mindset with a stronger focus on policies that serve the interests of Europe as a whole. This report argues that it is possible to make EU financing practices more transparent and, in this way, to …
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europe The Treaty of Aachen: A new Franco-German agenda
Germany and France have strengthened their cooperation with a new friendship treaty that was signed in the city of Aachen on 22 January 2019. One priority project on the new joint agenda is cooperation in the area of financial services and financial markets at the EU level, with the goal of working towards high regulatory standards, including in the area of sustainable finance.
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Europe The Möbius strip
A symbol of unity and connectedness.
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Climate action European Sustainable Finance Summit
As the European Sustainable Finance Summit gets underway, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Environment Minister Svenja Schulze are calling on European companies to invest more in sustainable economic activities. The first survey, published today, on applying the EU taxonomy shows that just 2% of companies’ activities by revenue meet the taxonomy’s level of ambition for climate action and …
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Ministry The German Finance Ministry: working around the world
What we do matters: not just in Berlin and Bonn, but internationally too. Many Finance Ministry employees work in exciting positions around the globe. If you would like to find out more about these opportunities, keep reading!