Review of the Shareholder Rights Directive: BETTER FINANCE asks for free of charge voting rights for individual EU shareholders

During a debate on the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) held on the 12th of May in Brussels, Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, denounced the fees that individual investors often have to pay in order to exercise their voting rights. These fees can be particularly high for cross-border voting within the EU despite clear-cut rules on the free flow of capital within the union. Please read here the press release.

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