The Swiss Evangelical Party (PEV) supports the OECD’s minimum tax bill submitted to the vote on 18 June. At his meeting of delegates on Saturday in Aarau, he also did not fail to criticize the big banks in the context of the takeover of Credit Suisse.
Delegates accepted the OECD minimum tax by 93 votes to 4 with 4 abstentions, the party said in a statement. Already in November, they had said yes to the new climate law, also put to the vote on June 18.
In relation to the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS, the party called for ‘a transparent and relentless analysis of the roles and responsibilities of all those involved in the crisis’. He also castigated the fact that ‘many officials of the big banks, in particular Credit Suisse, [aient] cruelly lacking in credibility and integrity over the last few years, thus causing the rapid loss of confidence of the population and the financial markets.
“There needs to be stricter safeguards as well as clear guidelines for awarding bonuses,” President and National Councilor Lilian Studer (AG) said in the statement. And to ask UBS ‘to seriously examine the possibility of making the Swiss activities of Credit Suisse autonomous’.
In another register, the ENP delegates once more pleaded for ‘unqualified support for Ukraine, even if Switzerland is a neutral state’. We must use all the existing room for maneuver in terms of the policy of neutrality. ‘We have always practiced differentiated and not integral neutrality,’ noted Ms. Studer.
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