Algirdas Semeta may not be a household name to many people in the EU. Nor might his title of ‘Commissioner Designate for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud’ ring a bell. You might even struggle to place him when I tell you that he used to be Director General of the Department of Statistics of the Government of Lithuania.

Nuria Molina 2009 11 26 The crisis seems to be reversing a lot of the hard won achievements in the area of conditionality. I’m not normally a pessimist by nature, but I’m turning into one after two vicious blows

Bodo Ellmers 2009 11 04 The German development community has been through uncertain times since the federal elections took place in late September. The Social Democrats (SPD) lost, and the SPD development minister Heidemarie Wiczorek Zeul had to step

Gail Hurley 2009 10 28 EURODAD’s nomination for the coveted Bretton Woods Project ‘Bankspeak of the year’ award goes to the Economic Policy and Debt Department for a recent article on ‘odious debt as a principal agent problem’. The

If you are reading this in Stockholm you may already be feeling panel beaten. There are hours of presentations lined up at the European Development Days there, and you can watch some of them live. But a careful look at the programme reveals that there will be little or no discussion on capital flight and tax justice.