Mr. Alain Lamassoure:

What I am told is that there are two kinds of these mute people - those who oppose for reasons of principle and those whose position is "wait and see what is going to happen", particularly after the strong but not very precise comments by President Macron on taxing the digital economy. With regard to the directions given by the G20 chaired by Germany last June - it was a meeting of G20 finance Ministers chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble - to the OECD and the European Council to the European Commission to put forward concrete proposals to tax directly or indirectly the digital economy, the work for the OECD should be completed in March or April while the work for the European Commission should be completed later. They do not want to take a position. They are cautious.