PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an international tax to finance efforts to combat so-called climate change.
During the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, Macron said that he is “in favor of an international taxation to finance efforts that we have to make to fight poverty and in terms of climate [action],” according to a Politico report.
“It doesn’t work when you do it alone, the [financial] flows go elsewhere,” the French president said on Friday, June 23 during a press conference.
“France already has in place two types of taxes that have been suggested: one on plane tickets, another on financial transactions,” he stated.
Macron announced that he wants to “make others follow us and mobilize” around the issue of “climate change” and an international taxation system.
“There has been a great deal of discussion on the idea of international taxation, over and above what countries and institutions are doing. Whether it’s on financial transactions, maritime transport or certain other models, it will only work if it’s truly international, and so it presupposes an agreement, as we’ve been able to do on international taxation,” the French president said during the closing session of the event.
France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Politico that in order to introduce an international tax “you need to start early if you want to achieve results because it takes a lot of time.”
An official from the French government told Politico that the initiative to “reinforce international fiscal cooperation” is still in an early stage and that “nothing has yet been set in stone.”
In addition to taxes on financial transactions and plane tickets, a global shipping tax could also be part of this international climate tax.
“The quite vague reference [from Macron] to fiscal initiatives is a way of shoving a foot in the door and be able to work on a shipping tax,” the former director of the OECD’s “Centre for Tax Policy and Administration,” Pascal Saint-Amans said.
Macron, an alumnus of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Young Global Leader” program, is known for his globalist policies.
Last year, the French president called for a “single global order” to deal with the current geopolitical tension between China and the West.
In July 2022, he was blasted by critics for jet-skiing on holiday in Provence the same week that he told French citizens to be more frugal in terms of energy consumption as prices soared.
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