Press Releases

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Eurodad

Just 1% of rich countries’ spending on Covid went to overseas aid

  • OECD preliminary figures for 2020 show donors still failing to reach commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on ODA
  • Loans are on the increase
  • Aid Effectiveness
  • Covid-19
Jean Saldanha

IMF-WB Spring Meetings: Missed opportunities risk creating another lost decade for development

Eurodad Director Jean Saldanha reflects on the 2021 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.

  • Climate Finance
  • Global Processes
Julia Ravenscroft

Comments from Eurodad on recent announcements from the US administration regarding the OECD-led tax negotiations in the Inclusive Framework

According to the Financial Times and other news media, the US Administration has put forward specific proposals for the design of future global tax standards, which are currently being negotiated within the OECD-led “Inclusive Framework”.

  • Tax Justice
Eurodad

World leaders continue to kick the can down the road on debt reform

World leaders failed to seize an opportunity for vital reform of the international debt architecture when they met yesterday (29 March) at the UN.

  • Debt Justice
  • Debt Resolution
Tove Ryding

Eurodad reaction to EU ministers’ discussion about public country by country reporting today

Momentum is building for stronger EU measures against corporate tax avoidance - Eurodad reaction to EU ministers’ discussion about public country by country reporting today

  • Tax Justice
  • CBCR
Eurodad

220 organisations urge G20 finance ministers to back a new round of IMF Special Drawing Rights, as poorest countries struggle with Covid-19 crises

A new allocation of Special Drawing Rights would send a strong signal of renewed multilateral coordination that puts life first.

  • Development Finance
  • Covid-19
Tove Ryding

Eurodad reaction to the report of the UN FACTI High Level Panel

The UN FACTI report must be a starting gun for international action to stop illicit financial flows, what is needed now is for our governments to get to work.

  • Tax Justice
  • Covid-19
Tove Ryding

Eurodad reaction to today's OpenLux revelations

The OpenLux investigation shows us two things. Firstly, transparency works, and secondly, that we have a long way to go before the EU can declare itself free of tax havens.

  • Tax Justice
  • Stop Tax Dodging
Eurodad

The Global Alliance for Tax Justice nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Today, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), of which Tax Justice Europe is the European Branch, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. See below for the press release published by GATJ.

  • Tax Justice
Julia Ravenscroft

Reaction to G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments: designed by and for creditors

Today the G20 published its “Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI.” The proposed framework is extremely disappointing, and yet again another mechanism that has been designed by and for creditors.

  • Debt Justice
  • DSSI