Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the need for unified actions within the European Union to combat tax evasion and money laundering.
Gordon Brown highlights the urgency and importance of collective action by the European Union in addressing financial crimes such as tax evasion and money laundering. By creating a unified approach, the EU can eliminate havens that allow individuals and corporations to evade their financial responsibilities, thus promoting fairer tax practices and greater accountability.
In practice
In a speech about fiscal responsibility, one could quote Gordon Brown to highlight the EU's efforts against tax malpractices.
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
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In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.
Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act is so egregious as to be absolutely clear on its face.
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