Als wir erfuhren, unter welch erbärmlichen Bedingungen Flüchtlinge in Serbien und Griechenland leben und dass sie schutzlos eisiger Kälte ausgeliefert sind, da haben wir gehandelt. Unser Spendenaufruf hat innerhalb weniger Tage 64.000 Euro gebracht. Wir haben das Geld direkt an die Organisationen überwiesen, die vor Ort Hilfe leisten.
Jedes Weizenkorn wird nur einmal geerntet, verarbeitet und gegessen - verkauft aber wird es 99 Mal. In ihrer Gier nach Profiten wetten Spekulanten auf Mais, Weizen und Zucker. Die Folge: Die Preise für diese Grundnahrungsmittel steigen: Das trifft vor allem die Ärmsten der Armen.
The banks never gave us back all the 4.5 trillion euros we paid them in aid following the financial crisis that hit Europe in 2010. People had to rescue the bankers and speculators responsible for the devastation of our economies and welfare.
Corporations have been taking us for a ride by using every trick in the book to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. But that could be about to end. The European Commission has proposed a first step to make giant corporations like Amazon and Facebook play by a common set of tax rules across Europe, and stop them from exploiting the differences in national corporate tax regimes.
The ongoing negotiations of the EU-US trade agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are happening behind closed doors, hand in hand with big business lobby groups. Their influence is so great that their collaboration with TTIP negotiators deserves closer scrutiny. Our contribution: to give the most successful business group in hijacking TTIP for corporations an award!
For the first time in history we could have a way to internationally clamp down on corporate abuses. A new global treaty would introduce legally binding rules for corporations. But despite having support from most countries in the United Nations, EU countries have been boycotting this treaty. However, thanks to thousands of actions, nearly 92,000, the European Union has finally agreed to participate in the Intergovernmental Working Group that will discuss how to develop and implement this global treaty.
Pollution is a profitable business. For the past decade powerful corporations have spared no expense to lobby behind the scenes to stop any meaningful reform of the EU carbon pricing policy. The law is now up for review in the European Parliament but so far, things does not seem to be heading in the right direction. Recently, the EP Industry Committee voted in favour of big polluters rather than an efficient reform. But we're not defeated and will keep up the pressure on European policymakers.
