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  • ECB’s Lagarde Pushes Back Against Taxes to Stop Capital Outflows

    From finance.yahoo.com

    European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said creating incentives for investments in Europe is a better approach to prevent capital outflows to other regions than imposing taxes. Current market developments signal that investors are interested in allocating more capital in Europe, Lagarde said Sunday during a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference. “I’m more in favor of incentives than taxes,” Lagarde said. The overall sentiment is currently positive for Europe as “the money is coming in.” Lagarde made the comments amid increasingly urgent calls from ECB officials, European governments ... (full story)

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Aussi
Feb 15, 2026 5:42pm
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Quoting Ferna
Well "competitiveness" can only be improved if you let countries and people compete. So there is your first logical failure. It's like sitting at all the power of European Commission + ECB and making all the rules there is that only benefits the super corporations, and telling us who remains to compete against all kinds of crazy laws and regulations they came up with. Meanwhile the big corporations pay almost nothing in tax in Europe and are stationed in tax havens like Ireland. So if europeans could get that 10% corporate tax benefit,...
Now a few countrys have had enough and fighting lagarde and her agenda looks like it could fall apart if more join them
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Polimini
Feb 16, 2026 2:45am
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what weird comments, i really dislike her, but what she said here makes complete sense.
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Trader#3EB9
Feb 15, 2026 2:35pm
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Quoting Ferna
Wtf does ECB have to do with sovereign countries taxes? Just leave this union already as it is not what it was said to be meant for.
Nothing. They deal with monetary policy, not fiscal policy (taxes)... thus your question is wrong as it goes one step further than the basic fiscal aspect into "sovereign countries taxes"

She made the comment from the perspective of - If it would be up to the ECB and her, she would go the way of incentives and not taxes - it's in the article "Lagarde made the comments amid increasingly urgent calls from ECB officials, European governments and corporate leaders to improve the European Union’s competitiveness"
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Trader#A330
Feb 15, 2026 11:02am
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The world order has changed, but the EU still uses narrow-minded thinking.
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Trader#1F6C
Feb 15, 2026 3:30pm
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It worked with Hitler, and brought back the economy of Germany during his time.
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