Fabio De Masi

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Fabio De Masi (2017)

Fabio Valeriano Lanfranco De Masi (born March 7, 1980 in Groß-Gerau ) is a German - Italian politician ( Die Linke ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2017 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 . Since 2017 he has been the deputy chairman of the Left Party in the Bundestag .

Origin and career

Fabio De Masi is the son of an Italian trade unionist and a German language teacher. His Italian grandfather fought as a partisan for the liberation of Italy from fascism.

De Masi studied economics at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and graduated in 2005 with a diploma . In 2009 he obtained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Cape Town and in 2013 a master's degree in international economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law . He was a scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service .

In 2005 he was assistant to the board of a non-profit management consultancy under the auspices of the UN , from 2005 to 2014 research assistant in the German Bundestag among others with Sahra Wagenknecht and from 2013 to 2014 lecturer in economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

De Masi is a Roman Catholic , father of one child and has both German and Italian citizenship . He lives in Hamburg .

Party politics

De Masi is a member of the Hamburg regional association and belongs to the socialist left movement.

In August 2018 he was one of the founders of the collection movement Stand Up and was a member of its board until March 2019.

German Bundestag

In the 2017 Bundestag election , he was elected to the German Bundestag at number 1 on the Hamburg state list .

In the 19th legislative period he is the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Bundestag , head of the working group on economics and finance, financial policy spokesman and member and chairman of his parliamentary group in the finance committee . He is also vice chairman of the British-German Parliamentary Group and the Southern Africa Parliamentary Group and a member of the board of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly . De Masi is also an alternate member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Energy .

European Parliament

After being in the European elections in 2009 ran unsuccessfully, he was in the 2014 European elections in the European Parliament elected. He was a member of parliament until 2017 and was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs .

He was also a full member of the “Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures of a Similar Kind or Effect” (TAXE), which was set up after the so-called Luxembourg Leaks affair.

From July 2016, Fabio De Masi was Deputy Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering and Tax Evasion and Avoidance (PANA), which was set up after the Panama Papers scandal .

He was a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with South Africa and an alternate member of the delegation for relations with India.

He was also a deputy member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) until January 2017 .

He belonged to the intergroup on "Integrity: Transparency, Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime", which is committed to the legal protection of whistleblowers , among other things .

Positions

Luxembourg Leaks

In De Masi's opinion, the Luxemburg Leaks illustrate “the complicity of the governments of the European Union (EU), which enable international corporations such as Apple, Google & Co. to apply mini tax rates on their profits through aggressive tax planning”. The federal states would try to attract companies and the wealthy with poor staffing levels to audits. The state of Hesse even declared the most successful tax auditors with false medical reports to be crazy . At the same time, however, the federal government is fighting bitterly internationally against transparency in the tax area. The reporting of company figures such as sales, profits, employees per country, which is common in the banking and raw materials sector, is blocked with reference to competitiveness and tax secrecy. Public inspection of the tax rulings made known by Lux leaks, which should finally be automatically exchanged in the EU from 2017, was also prevented.

German export surpluses

De Masi criticizes the German export surpluses and agreed with Donald Trump's government. Germany lives "permanently from the consumption of others". He rejected the usual explanations: "You can't all export at the same time - except to Mars." Under the mantle of the undervalued euro, Germany could "successfully step on a step. With such export surpluses, the D-Mark would have appreciated considerably." The US law against currency manipulation is not written for a common currency like the euro.

As early as 2013, De Masi criticized Germany's chronic export surpluses as the cause of the “so-called” euro crisis .

Criticism of the ECB

In an interview with Junge Welt , De Masi was critical of the EU's policy towards Greece, which he viewed as blackmail. At the beginning of 2017, Varoufakis and De Masi undertook a “campaign for freedom of information”. De Masi again demanded access to the ECB's opinion.

He also criticized the use of the US provider Verizon by the ECB, as this would make relevant information accessible to the US government via the NSA.

Euro exit

In 2016, De Masi was one of the first to sign an appeal for a so-called Lexit (a left-wing exit from the euro), the aim of which, according to the appeal, is to "develop emancipatory, left-wing strategies for an exit from the euro and overcoming neoliberal integration."

Award

In 2017, Fabio de Masi was named one of the Global Tax 50 of the International Tax Review , with which the magazine recognizes what it considers to be "the world's 50 most influential people, organizations or developments in the field of tax policy".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fabio De Masi bundestag.de
  2. ↑ Die Linke fabio-de-masi.de
  3. ↑ Team Sahra is looking for more supporters sueddeutsche.de, August 3, 2018
  4. ↑ Death blow for "getting up"? tagesspiegel.de, March 10, 2019
  5. ↑ These Hamburg politicians represent the Hanseatic city in Berlin welt.de, September 25, 2017
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Tax rulings and other measures of a similar nature or effect - members. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .
  8. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20160711IPR36763/Werner-Langen-elected-Panama-Papers-Inquiry-Committee-chair
  9. ^ Committees - Fabio De Masi. (No longer available online.) In: fabio-de-masi.de. January 28, 2017, archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 30, 2017 .
  10. ^ Fabio De Masi / Stefan Herweg: From Luxembourg to Panama. Criminals embezzle billions - the states support them. In: RosaLux. Journal of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Edition 2, 2016. https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/RosaLux/RosaLux_2-2016.pdf
  11. ↑ Germany lives from the consumption of others . In: Causa Debattenportal . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 12, 2017]).
  12. ^ German export surpluses: Where Trump is (exceptionally) right - Die Linke. Europe - . February 2, 2017 ( dielinke-europa.eu [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  13. ↑ By Fabio de Masi: The German Currency War, February 10, 2013 (Peace Council). originally in: new germany, Saturday, February 9, 2013. Retrieved on February 3, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Johannes Supe: "The ECB probably had doubts about its approach" . In: young world . March 10, 2017 ( jungewelt.de [accessed June 12, 2017]).
  15. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: European Central Bank: Powerful and opaque . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed June 12, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Harald Neuber: "The ECB has a problem with democracy". Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Democracy and sovereignty instead of neo-liberal integration and the failed euro system Call and first signatory
  18. ↑ Global Tax 50: LINKE is now world champion in tax justice , press release of the left faction, December 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME De Masi, Fabio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Masi, Fabio Valeriano Lanfranco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross-Gerau