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Staffing in Health and Social Care sector

An EU directive should mandate member states to address shortages as a risk to occupational health.

Establishing safe staffing in health and social care (socialeurope.eu)

Submission for a UN Tax Convention

As the negotiations of Terms of Reference for a new United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation move forward, over 170 organisations and trade unions have responded to a consultation and made a joint submission to the Chair of the negotiations, specifying the key points that we expect the Convention to deliver on.

More than 170 CSOs and trade unions issue joint submission regarding a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (eurodad.org)

Platform work: Illusions of substance

The EU is strengthening the rights of platform workers. But companies are left with loopholes that not every member state wants to close

Illusion of substance – European integration | IPS Journal (ips-journal.eu)

Industrial policies? Of course!

Developing countries wanting to pursue industrial policy were severely reprimanded by advocates of the ‘neoliberal’ Washington Consensus. Now, it is being deployed as a weapon in the new Cold War.

Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War? | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

US billionaires: wealth + 88 % in four years!

Four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of more than $5.5 trillion.

Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88 Percent over Four Years – Inequality.org

The new platform of rights for gig workers

A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.

‘Gig’ workers in Europe: the new platform of rights (socialeurope.eu)

Re-thinking economics at the IMF!

Economists could benefit from greater engagement with the ideas of philosophers, historians, and sociologists, just as Adam Smith once did. The philosophers, historians, and sociologists would likely benefit.

Angus Deaton

Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton (imf.org)

Paying CEOs or Paying Taxes?

Corporate tax dodging and CEO pay have both gotten so far out of control that a significant number of major U.S. companies are paying their top executives more than they’re paying Uncle Sam. 

Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam – Inequality.org

Euromemo Group

Our Group has been in existence since the mid-1990s.  Our main activity consists of an annual conference and the publication of a collectively written annual report.  We review and critique the economic, social and ecological policies of the EU as well as propose alternatives from a fair, inclusive and socially/ecologically sustainable perspective.

Read the newest report: https://euromemo.eu/euromemorandum-2024/ 

Why Inequality matters…

… and what to do about it?

There is an elephant in the room. Stocks of wealth – assets such as property, savings, and investments that can be given a monetary value – have soared in recent decades. According to the Wealth Inequality Database, average wealth in the UK has doubled from £100k per head in 1985 to £200k per head in 2021. To put this another way, it took several millennia for wealth in Britain to reach the £100k threshold. And then, a mere 36 years later, this stock of wealth had doubled: a bonanza unprecedented in human history.

Why wealth inequality matters – and what to do about it! | LSE Inequalities

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