Please click below to see an archived webcast of the European Parliament Testimony of Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor on Financial Transaction Taxes. This hearing was conducted by the full ECON committee on the 2nd of December 2009.

Sony Kapoor European Parliament Testimony on Financial Transaction Taxes

For the speech please look at time stamp 16:20:10 to 16:27:20 and for answers to MEP questions please look at time stamp 17:01:20 to 17:09:00.

A copy of the submitted written Testimony of Mr Kapoor will be available both here and on the European Parliament website on Monday the 7th of December. 

Other details of the hearing can be accessed here. 

Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor sat down with the Real News Network on one of his visits to Washington DC and gave a series of wide-ranging interviews on the difficulty of getting the right financial regulation, the extreme fragility of the economic recovery, the sheer scale of the problem of rising unemployment and stagnating wages, the problems of collective action faced by institutions and governments and a number of other topical issues including the question of what should be done with institutions such as Goldman Sachs. These can now be accessed in our Audio/Video resource section http://www.re-define.org/audiovideo.