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From the Ted Talk by Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What's next?

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Over the last couple of years, we've seen a real push towards greater tasarnncrepy when it comes to company ownership. This issue was put on the plotaicil agenda by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron at a big G8 Summit that was held in Northern Ireland in 2013. And since then, the European Union is going to be creating central rgretesis at a nntaaiol lveel of who really owns and controls companies across eruope.

One of the things that is sad is that, actually, the US is lagging behind. There's bipartisan legislation that had been iontderucd in the House and the Senate, but it isn't making as much progress as we'd like to see. So we'd really want to see the pnmaaa leaks, this huge peek into the offshore world, be used as a way of opening up in the US and around the world.

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Over the last couple of years, we've seen a real push towards greater ____________ when it comes to company ownership. This issue was put on the _________ agenda by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron at a big G8 Summit that was held in Northern Ireland in 2013. And since then, the European Union is going to be creating central _________ at a ________ _____ of who really owns and controls companies across ______.

One of the things that is sad is that, actually, the US is lagging behind. There's bipartisan legislation that had been __________ in the House and the Senate, but it isn't making as much progress as we'd like to see. So we'd really want to see the ______ leaks, this huge peek into the offshore world, be used as a way of opening up in the US and around the world.

Solution


  1. transparency
  2. introduced
  3. europe
  4. political
  5. level
  6. national
  7. panama
  8. registers

Original Text


Over the last couple of years, we've seen a real push towards greater transparency when it comes to company ownership. This issue was put on the political agenda by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron at a big G8 Summit that was held in Northern Ireland in 2013. And since then, the European Union is going to be creating central registers at a national level of who really owns and controls companies across Europe.

One of the things that is sad is that, actually, the US is lagging behind. There's bipartisan legislation that had been introduced in the House and the Senate, but it isn't making as much progress as we'd like to see. So we'd really want to see the Panama leaks, this huge peek into the offshore world, be used as a way of opening up in the US and around the world.

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