I’ve just returned from the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis, where tax avoidance took centre stage.I worked out that this was my ninth WSF. Since they started in 2001, I’ve only missed one....
EC officially recognises biofuels problem: but what next?In mid October, the European Commission released a key legislative proposal that seeks to amend the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) to take...
Inside the European Commission (EC), new moves are afoot to tackle tax avoidance. With the newly published EU Action Plan for fighting tax fraud and evasion, ActionAid believes there is a real...
In 2008, ActionAid started campaigning to remove biofuels targets that are having a detrimental effect on poor and marginalised communities around the world. We did so in response to calls from...
It’s high time to tell the story of ActionAid’s new international strategy ‘People’s Action to End Poverty’ which will run from 2013-2017 and which sets out to deepen our work on supporting...
As EU leaders gather for yet another summit discussing the economic crisis inside of the EU borders, they are still failing to give 0.7% of their Gross National Income towards development aid, to...
As the European Commission is given an opportunity to revise the EU’s biofuels targets in 2012, a new ActionAid report reveals that the EU continues to ignore that its biofuels policies are driving up global food prices and pushing people in poor countries off their land.
The European Union’s budget is allocated in 7 year cycles, called Multi-Annual Financial Frameworks (MFF). This includes the money that the EU gives in development aid. Although the next budget...
