EU: 130 MEPs ask for a tax on the ultra-rich

(ANSA) - STRASBOURG, MARCH 14 - More than 130 MEPs have signed a petition calling for the introduction of a tax on the wealth of the "ultra-rich" on an international scale to participate in the "ecological and social transition".

    "What we managed to achieve for the multinationals, we must now do for the rich", write French MEP Aurore Lalucq (Socialists and Democrats, left) and economist Gabriel Zucman, initiators of the campaign, in an article published today in the newspaper Le Monde .

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