MEP Alain Lamassoure meets ELI President Christiane Wendehorst in Vienna (Austria)

15.05.2018

On 15 May 2018, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Alain Lamassoure, was welcomed to the premises of the ELI Secretariat by ELI President Christiane Wendehorst.

President Wendehorst gave an overview of the activities of the ELI and presented various ELI Projects to MEP Lamassoure. The two discussed tax law in general and in particular, the ELI Project on ‘For a European Approach to R&D Expenses Qualifying for the Common Corporate Tax Base Super Deduction’. Among other things, MEP Lamassoure is a Substitute of the TAX3 Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance of the European Parliament.

Discussions on asylum law, which is related to a recently completed ELI Project on the Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants and the Rule of Law, were also held as well as on bioethics.

MEP Alain Lamassoure and Christiane Wendehorst at the ELI Secretariat