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Sweden’s welfare experiment: a warning to Europe

Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.

How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe

Minimum wage report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of
falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage
earners in most European countries. The back ground to this is the implementation of the Euro
pean Minimum Wage Directive.

Publikation Nr. 100e, April 2025

The US is becoming the largest tax haven

as Joseph Stiglitz explains in this article:

America Is Becoming the World’s Largest Tax Haven by Joseph E. Stiglitz – Project Syndicate

IMF member States …

and their relative voting power:

IMF Voting Power 2025 | Tableau Public

Financing for whom?

At the UN Conference on Financing for Development, the social dimension should be on top.

Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions | Inter Press Service

The World Bank at 80!

What are the true goals of multilateral Cooperation and Development?

The World Bank, at 80, and the True Goals of Multilateral Cooperation and Global Development | Inter Press Service

Towards the eradication of poverty

Eradicating poverty is a political choice

eapn-POSITION_PAPER_TOWARDS_ERADICATION_POVERTY_EAPN-6139.pdf

Redefine our common security

The Common Security Conference 2025 brought together global leaders, trade unionists, academics and peace advocates in the face of rising global tensions.

Common Security 2025: Redefining security for the 21st Century – International Trade Union Confederation

‘Back to austerity?’ Trade Unions on ‘Path to Prosperity’

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank gather for their 2025 Spring Meetings under the theme “Jobs – the Path to Prosperity”, global unions are raising the alarm over the return to austerity policies that undermine prosperity and decent work.

Back to austerity? Global unions confront IMF and World Bank on ‘Path to Prosperity’ – International Trade Union Confederation

Aid crisis and Alarm Bells for the Future

The first drop in ODA since 2017 sounds alarm bells for the future of aid, as new figures highlight a 7.1 per cent decrease

Aid crisis – new data sounds fresh alarm bells for the future – Eurodad

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