Mardi, les eurodéputés 🇪🇺 sont face à un choix simple : sacrifier nos services publics, nos salaires, les investissements sociaux &climatiques, notre protection sociale OU voter contre les règles budgétaires qui imposeront le retour à l’austérité en sacrifiant notre 🌍 EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS

Frog story.

🔴"Crippling our economies will have consequences for the whole of the EU" An open letter to MEPs from the leaders of Belgian, French, Italian and Spanish trade unions ahead of tomorrow's European Parliament vote on new austerity rules etuc.org/en/pressreleas…

Polls show citizens’ priorities for the European elections are living standards, jobs, health, housing, the environment and education All things Europe won’t be able to deliver on if MEPs vote for austerity 2.0 tomorrow - ✍️ Esther Lynch for EUobserver euobserver.com/green-economy/…

Tomorrow is the last chance to reject EU fiscal rules that bring austerity & are a threat to people, our quality of life and our precious planet. 🆘 We call MEPs to vote NO for the new EU fiscal rules! #fiscalmatters

22 years ago. no need for additional words. whatever your position on the Israel/Palestinian conflict, please listen.

Hmmm. But Elon Musk got more than $5 billion from Uncle Sam (and that’s a figure from 10 years ago) latimes.com/business/la-fi…)

1/9 Today #COMPET Council meets to agree new conclusions on “a competitive European industry”. #Competitiveness is word of the moment in Brussels bubble with Europe’s biggest industries pushing this agenda hard. But this agenda should worry us deeply consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/co…

4/9 And industry has the begging bowl out, demanding more public funding and what it calls “competitive and sustainable taxes” which is jargon for the lowest possible corporate taxes. This is a reversal of the Polluter Pays principle. corporateeurope.org/en/2024/05/ope…

The whole debate about “fiscal rules” forgets basic math. X (any number no matter how low) over 0 is infinity. Hence the obsession about reducing deficits (to show a country is being fiscally responsible) can lead to higher debt/GDP: if you are reducing the deficit by cutting

Inflation today is driven by monopolistic supply, not excess demand. Energy, food and more. The whole discussion about interest rates ignores that. Go after the source (anti-monopoly, and the multiple causes of “excess” profits ie “rents”). Isabella M Weber very good on this.

Fundi Tshazibana gives her first interview since taking up her new role as vice-chair of the Network for Greening the Financial System. Tshazibana discusses the need to update scenarios to better reflect the real risks of climate change and the role of macroeconomic stability in enabling the green transition.

"Penser que la #financedurable seule peut sauver le monde relève du fantasme [...] Elle est une condition nécessaire mais pas suffisante : il faut en premier lieu que les politiques publiques disent ce qui doit ou non être fait" #CMU #FinanceWatch optionfinance.fr/dossiers-de-la…

🤜120+🤛 orgs say to EU leaders at #EUCO in Brussels: oppose the ‘Industrial Deal’ by #BigPolluters & lobby ✊We need real solutions to multiple crises - not industry agenda scrapping protections for profits! corporateeurope.org/en/2024/06/pri… #EU2024BE

🚨This week, MEPs vote on von der Leyen's 2nd term as 🇪🇺 Commission President. What does she stand for? 5 years ago, she praised climate activists & promised a Green Deal. Now, she's embracing corporate lobbyists & deregulation. 🧵👇

📊New Report Alert: "Europe’s coming #InvestmentCrisis" What if capital markets could only meet a third of Europe’s essential funding needs? A quick🧵 to summarise the report👇

If our fears are confirmed, such an official study could create the conditions for a constructive and pragmatic discussion on the EU financing architecture and the options available to policymakers in the short and long term.

Crazy weather!

J'ai envie de partager ce texte de Carl Sagan, publié avec cette image de la Terre vue à une distance de 6 milliards de kilomètres par la sonde Voyager. Texte de 1990, malheureusement toujours d’actualité. Notre Terre est juste ce petit point bleu pâle, "Pale Blue dot" Thread👇

Finance Watch calls on the European Commission to swiftly implement EIOPA 🇪🇺's recommendation to increase insurers’ capital requirements for fossil fuel exposures and on EU Banking Authority - EBA 🇪🇺 to join #EIOPA with similar requirements for banks #FinancialStability finance-watch.org/press/eiopa-co…