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Eurodad is a network of 58 civil society organisations (CSOs) from 28 European countries working for economic justice. http://www.eurodad.org | http://eraofjustice.org

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · May 12

📢 Economic, #Climate & #GenderJustice
Caring for one = caring for all

In 50 days 🌍 leaders will set the stage for #EconomicJustice for the next decade at #FfD4
🪧Join our campaign & tell European leaders it's time for an #EraOfJustice!
Learn more: eraofjustice.org

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

"Our biggest concern has been that civil society fails to be seen as an important key stakeholder. We need a seat in decision-making."

- Veronica Fadzai Zano, Oxfam in Southern Africa

#GlobalGateway @concord-europe.bsky.social @actionaideu.bsky.social @counter-balance.bsky.social

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

"Local people don't receive much information. Impact assessments are very weak. This project is huge in scale, but space for participation is very small."

– Kaisha Atakhanova, ARGO

#GlobalGateway

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

3/3 "Both the EU and China must stop taking Africa as a battling ground. We are not responsible for keeping your competitiveness high."

- Hikma Bachegour, @menafem.bsky.social

#GlobalGateway

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

2/3 "(..) Green colonialism where Africa provides raw materials without a real benefit for the local people. The #JustTransition can't be imported from Brussels, it must be co-created with those people who bear the consequences of these projects."

#GlobalGateway @menafem.bsky.social

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

1/3 "The question today is about the EU approach. In initiatives like the #GlobalGateway, the EU presents these partnerships as a win-win, yet in practice the social and economic weight is still very unequal."

- Hikma Bachegour, @menafem.bsky.social 🧵⤵️

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

🔴 Starting soon | What are the real implications of the #GlobalGateway strategy❓

Today we'll discuss w/ civil society, affected communities & policymakers the impacts of #energy, mining, #climate & infrastructure projects on the ground.

Join via Zoom: bit.ly/4o5Uryp

The EU’s Global Gateway: a civil society perspective. 8 October 2025
9.00 - 11.00 CEST, Press Club Brussels Europe. This event will be livestreamed. Registration open until Monday 8 October 23.59 CEST. Spekers:
• Frank Vanaerschot, Counter Balance
• Kaisha Atakhanova, ARGO, Kazakhstan
• Hikma Bachegour, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
• Veronica Fadzai Zano, Oxfam Southern Africa (online)
• Udo Bullmann MEP, Socialists and Democrats (online)
• Magnus Guldberg, Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Union, Embassy Secretary & Chair of the Working Party on Global Gateway
• Jean Saldanha, European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad. Moderated by Shada Islam (Commentator on EU Affairs).

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow w/@actionaideu.bsky.social, @concord-europe.bsky.social & @counter-balance.bsky.social
we'll host the panel "The EU's #GlobalGateway: a civil society perspective". Voices from the Global South will challenge 🇪🇺 flagship strategy on energy, climate & inequality.

Read more: bit.ly/4pYQTzR

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CONCORD @concord-europe.bsky.social · 8d

Want to dive deeper into the topic?

📆 Join our upcoming event co-organised with @eurodadnews.bsky.social & @counter-balance.bsky.social next Wednesday, 8 October:

The EU’s Global Gateway: a civil society perspective

🔗 Register now
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The EU's Global Gateway: a civil society perspective

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 14d

The current system of governance, financing, & support for #development, doesn't meet low & middle-income countries' needs to achieve their goals.
📖Read more in part 2 of @foreignpolicy.com's "Global Governance Reimagined" series on 'Moving beyond aid' globalgovernancereimagined.com/2025/08/25/m...

The inability to meet aid commitments represents a loss of legitimacy for the donor community's actions and strategies.

European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 21d

Governments must establish a global mechanism for just transition that can ensure an equitable and just transition does not exacerbate inequalities and exploitative relations between and within countries.
#DrawTheLine

Global Mechanism for Just Transition now!

We demand a global mechanism that has formal representation of civil society and social movements to accelerate robust international cooperation towards a global just transition, facilitating knowledge, technology, and resource transfers, especially from North to South

Draw the Line
Resist. Reclaim. Rise up for system change
The world is ours!

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 22d

❓What are the real implications of the #GlobalGateway?

Join @concord-europe.bsky.social, @actionaideu.bsky.social, Counter Balance and us on 8 October as we'll discuss the impacts of #energy, mining, #climate & infrastructure projects on the ground.

Register here: www.eurodad.org/eu_global_ga...

The EU’s Global Gateway: a civil society perspective. The European Commission's second Global Gateway Forum promises to be a carefully stage-managed success story. This panel will provide an alternative to the official narrative, spotlighting the real implications of the strategy and the impacts of energy, mining, climate and infrastructure projects on the ground. The event will feature voices from the European Parliament and civil society in the Global South. 8 October. 9.00-11.00 CEST at the Press Club Brussels Europe. This event will be live streamed.

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Sep 5

History was in the making at the #UN last month as negotiations began for the future #UNTaxConvention. While important progress was made, @toveryding.bsky.social explains that much still needs to be resolved- not least on taxation & #SustainableDevelopment.
Read more www.eurodad.org/breaking_the...

History was in the making at @UN last month as negotiations began for the future #UNTaxConvention. While important progress was made, @toveryding explains that much still needs to be resolved- not least on taxation & #SustainableDevelopment.
Read more 👉 https://www.eurodad.org/breaking_the_ice_in_the_un_tax_convention_negotiations

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Naomi Fowler @naomifowler.bsky.social · Sep 4

1) A v helpful account from @toveryding.bsky.social sky.social @eurodadnews.bsky.social of 'the initial timid steps on the long road to a UN Convention on International Tax Cooperation' led by the Africa Group

Breaking the ice in the UN Tax Convention negotiations

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Sep 4

🤔How is it that multinational corps & rich individuals can dodge taxes, while #PublicServices & the environmental crisis go unfunded?

👉Because the global #tax rules are broken.

Right now, we have the chance to rewrite these rules, thanks to the #GlobalTaxBody! youtu.be/BEoh0Jno1zg

Meet the Global Tax Body!

Every year, countries lose €100s of billions due to tax havens & loopholes, but it doesn’t have to be this way.For over 10 years, civil society has been figh...

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Sep 4

@globaltaxjustice.org @taxjustice.net @alliancesud.ch @ccfd-tsolidaire.bsky.social @observatoriodg.bsky.social @latindadd.bsky.social

European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Sep 4

For more than 1️⃣0️⃣ years, the #GlobalTaxBody has been fighting for #TaxJustice alongside civil society, to close the loopholes that allow multinationals and rich individuals to dodge their taxes, and to help fight #inequalities.

⏰ Learn more at 11am youtu.be/BEoh0Jno1zg

cc. @ga

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Global Alliance for Tax Justice @globaltaxjustice.org · Aug 12

"In the Sevilla FfD4 outcome document governments agreed to strong, but non-binding, language on tax. We must now take those important commitments and include them in the legally-binding UN Tax Convention."

- Tove Maria Ryding ( @eurodadnews.bsky.social )

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Aug 12

As the 2nd week of #UNTaxConvention negotiations get underway at the #UN. We call on governments to stop🛑 #TaxHavens and make sure the world's wealthiest individuals start paying their share of #tax.

Follow @globaltaxjustice.org for daily updates from New York.

#EraOfJustice

Governments must agree to environmentally responsible tax rules.

ERA OF Justice

#UNTaxConvention
#EraOfJustice

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Aug 12

In 2020, these were the largest profit-shifting destinations, according to @taxobservatory.bsky.social :

1️⃣The Netherlands 🇳🇱
2️⃣ Ireland 🇮🇪
3️⃣ Switzerland 🇨🇭
4️⃣ British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬
5️⃣ Luxembourg 🇱🇺

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#TaxTheRich #EraOfJustice #MakePollutersPay

Tax the rich

Underneath is an image of a stack of US$100 bills that have been cut in half.

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Global Alliance for Tax Justice @globaltaxjustice.org · Aug 5

🇺🇳 Day 2: UN Tax Convention Negotiations

🗞️ Read today's FfD Chronicle here: bit.ly/4m4XTJb

🧵 #UNTaxConvention

Issue 42: Point of Order

Civil Society working together with one voice to transform our global economic system & advance the systemic changes we urgently need to see.

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Global Alliance for Tax Justice @globaltaxjustice.org · Aug 5

“We are now creating an international tax system for sustainable development. This connects to other negotiations here, at the UN, from development to healthcare to the environment where financing these commitments is always a question."

- Tove Maria Ryding, @eurodadnews.bsky.social

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

Healthcare, education, infrastructure.

What do all these public services have in common?

💰 They need funding.

🇺🇳As the negotiations start today for a #UNTaxConvention, countries must #TaxtheRich and make multinationals pay, unlocking billions in sustainable public finance.

We need a fair, equitable, progressive, effective, inclusive, sustainable, and transparent UN Tax Convention. United for a UN Tax Convention!

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Aug 1

After years in the making, the negotiations on the substance of the #UNTaxConvention will begin on Monday. On the agenda, the legally binding commitments that governments will take on when signing the future convention & protocols.

Read our press release: ow.ly/LGRz50Wyrtm

"This is a truly historic moment - it is time to start rewriting the deeply flawed and unjust global tax rules. It is a unique opportunity to fight inequalities, stop tax havens, and make sure the world’s wealthiest individuals and multinationals start paying their share of tax." Tove Maria Ryding - Tax coordinator, Eurodad

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨We are hiring!
We are looking for a consultant to conduct a careful and participatory analysis of the systematic psychosocial risks in a workplace and propose a very practical strategy for addressing these risks.
Deadline for proposals: 31 August
Apply online: www.eurodad.org/call_for_ten...

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 30

In the aftermath of #FfD4, Maria Jose Romero and Jean Saldana, of @eurodadnews.bsky.social argue that the FfD process has always been and should continue to be the space for civil society to call for decisive action to democratise the global economic governance

👉 tinyurl.com/FfD4Wrap-up

A view of a protest during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Photo: UN Photo/Mariscal

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