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This letter was originally published on the New Statesman website.
Dear Chancellor,
As you know, I supported your government's call for getting the deficit under control and I like it that this coalition government is taking a five-year perspective and laying out a medium-term expenditure framework.
It was and is...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the latest global figure to come out in support of the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
Writing in Saturday’s Guardian, he urged G20 leaders to get behind Sarkozy and ‘introduce a tax on financial transactions to help low-income countries hit by the economic crisis and to protect poor people from climate change’.
He said that a failure to reach global agreement should not be an excuse for leaders not to...
Panic, plunge, turmoil and crisis featured on the front pages of the Mail, Financial Times, Guardian and Telegraph yesterday. The sovereign debt crisis, having been momentarily eased by agreement on Greece’s second bailout, is biting back, tearing shreds from stock market values.
Regardless of where on the doom-monger scale your predictions lie, the financial system is in peril, just three years since the last crisis. As Eurozone policy-makers (...
This article originally appeared on the Public Service Europe website.
A Financial Transaction Tax is popular with European citizens, but the dividends must go towards fighting climate change and poverty – argues Richard Gower of Oxfam.
In its quest to reduce its reliance on...
