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The number of people who can’t afford a week’s holiday despite being in work has risen again by over 1 million in a single year.

It is the third consecutive annual rise in holiday poverty and means that 15% of all working people in Europe are now missing out on time away with their families

...while CEOs, who now earn more than 100 times the average worker, sun themselves in luxury resorts.

The EU is in a job quality emergency and needs to rebuild its social contract through collective bargaining.

Workers are forced to give up their holidays due to rising costs for accommodation, transport and food, combined with declining purchasing power and speculation.

We call on the European Commission to ensure the Quality Job Package due this year includes legislation to rebalance the economy, including by making respect for collective bargaining a condition for access to public contracts.

🚨UPDATE: Human rights NGO is reporting that all #Handala crew members - including UNI colleague Hatem Aouini - are out of Israeli custody.

We must ramp up pressure on world leaders to take urgent, decisive action to bring the suffering in #Gaza to an end.

Palantir und biometrische Überwachung: Dobrindts „Sicherheitspaket“ missachtet Grundrechte Dobrindts neues „Sicherheitspaket“ wird von allen Seiten kritisiert: Die geplante automatisierte Gesichtserkennung und die polizeiliche Datenanalyse fallen bei IT- und Menschenrechtsexperten durch. Da...

"Carola Otte von der Humanistischen Union erklärt gegenüber @netzpolitik.org zu den geplanten biometrischen Regelungen: 'Wir sehen diese Maßnahmen als völlig unverhältnismäßig und als gefährlich für die gesamte Gesellschaft an.'" Zum Dobrindts geplantem #Sicherheitspaket.
#Palantir #Überwachung

My latest column for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, this time about Brazil.

While a small elite amasses billions, women like Fatouma work endlessly for less than $2 a day and still can’t afford basic food.


Oxfam’s report exposes how inequality is stealing dignity across Africa.

🔗 Read the report: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

#AfricaInequality

Pour dénoncer la situation à Gaza, une trentaine de commerces du quartier Dansaert affichent une ligne rouge sur leur vitrine - BX1 L’initriatrice du mouvement souligne qu’elle n’a pas “besoin de l’argent” des clients qui seraient contre. Dans le quartier Dansaert une trentaine de commercesaffichent une ligne rouge sur leur vitrin...

Une trentaine de commerçants du quartier Dansaert à Bruxelles traçent une ligne rouge pour dénoncer la situation à #Gaza.

#StopGenocide
#LigneRougepourGaza
#RedlineforGaza

Vanmorgen sprak ik op @radio1vrt.bsky.social over drie nieuwe opvangmaatregelen, en de impact hiervan voor mensen op de vlucht.

Wij verwachten meer dak- en thuisloosheid. Een 🧵

www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

Conclusie? De impact voel je enkel bij mensen op de vlucht. België en andere Europese landen zouden eerst zélf de regels moeten respecteren. Alleen dan kan je hetzelfde vragen van mensen op de vlucht. Doen alsof de spelregels nu al eerlijk, transparant en menselijk zijn, is de waarheid verdraaien.

La banque de semences de l’UAWC située dans Hébron a été démolie par l’armée israélienne aujourd’hui.

Une destruction qui atteint la #souverainetéalimentaire du territoire et tente d’effacer le patrimoine du vivant palestinien.

Cette destruction participe au nettoyage ethnique de la #Cisjordanie.

🗞️ Strikes, disputes, negotiations, agreements... The latest EPSU Collective Bargaining Newsletter is out!

🇬🇧 NHS workers prepare for major strikes
🇫🇷 Health workers on strike
🇷🇴 Unions challenge harsh #austerity
🇩🇪 Minimum wage set to rise

Read more here👇🏾
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Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.

ICYMI

Slovenia becomes first EU country to ban weapon export to Israel over the Israeli government genocidal acts in #Gaza

Slovenia Norway Ireland and Spain have recognised the state of Palestine. Others are considering

@ec.europa.eu and @kajakallas.bsky.social should act

@epsu.bsky.social

Why are the wealthy so well off? The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation

The rich don’t get rich by working harder. They get rich because the tax system is designed to reward wealth, not work.

This article explains how – and what we could do instead.

Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

History will not forgive inaction - Irish gov could do so much more to help Gaza THE world has watched with increasing horror as the crisis in Gaza continues to escalate. The furious conflict over the war-torn region has seen harrowing images of the humanitarian casualties beam…

Crisis in Gaza continues to escalate & history will not forgive inaction – Irish govt could do so much more to help
www.thesun.ie/news/1563975...

Das Überwachungsimperium Als in Los Angeles im Juni zehntausende Menschen gegen die Massenabschiebungen der Trump-Regierung auf die Straßen gehen, patrouillieren hoch oben am Himmel MQ-9-Predator-Aufklärungsdrohnen der…

Hierzulande wird die bundesweite Einführung von Palantir-Polizeisoftware diskutiert. Dabei ist Palantir-Software »designt für Totalüberwachung« und damit »inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie«, warnte @afelia.bsky.social. Eine Analyse von @crimewatch.bsky.social: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Borrell speaks out on the EU's 'double standards' on Gaza, and US tariff failure In an interview with EUobserver in Madrid, former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell reflects on the EU-US tariff deal ("it didn't work"), the Ukraine war ("it won't end soon"), his Moscow showdown with Sergei Lavrov, and admits the EU has "double standards" on Gaza.

In an interview with EUobserver in Madrid, former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell reflects on the EU-US tariff deal ("it didn't work"), the Ukraine war ("it won't end soon"), his Moscow showdown with Sergei Lavrov, and admits the EU has "double standards" on Gaza.

What were the @fra.europa.eu uropa.eu highlights in July?

🌟 a paper on migrant instrumentalisation
🌟 an update on investigating rights violations
🌟 EU strategies contributions
🌟 FRA Director joins @consilium.europa.eu talks

Stay tuned europa.eu/!BtgHWW

🇺🇳 On Monday, August 4th the negotiations begin for a #UNTaxConvention, a historic opportunity to rewrite the broken global tax rules to work for people and the planet.

Why do we urgently need this global tax treaty?

🧵 A thread on the negotiations:

💸 $1 billion is lost every day to tax abuse by the rich and multinationals.

This is the result of broken global tax rules that prevent countries, especially in the Global South, from delivering public services, development, climate action, human rights and gender equality.

❌ The current global tax rules are not only ineffective, they are deeply unjust.

The basis of these rules, developed at a time when many countries were not independent, largely favor Global North countries, at the expense of the Global South. Recent discussions at the OECD continue this system.

🚨 Now, a historic process is starting.

🎉 Following a resolution tabled by the African Group, with the support of G77 countries, countries agreed to begin negotiations on a #UNTaxConvention.

Negotiations run from now until mid-2027 for a framework convention and two early protocols.

📃 In 2024, countries adopted the Terms of Reference, the mandate for the negotiations, with key commitments on:

- Taxing the rich and multinationals
- Addressing tax abuse and illicit financial flows
- Advancing sustainable development
- Ensuring a fair allocation of taxing rights

The negotiations include 3 workstreams:

1️⃣ The Framework Convention
2️⃣ The 1st early protocol: Taxation of cross-border services in a digitalized economy
3️⃣ The 2nd early protocol: Prevention and resolution of tax disputes

100+ Civil Society Organisations and Trade Unions Make Three Joint Submissions Ahead of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation Negotiations - Global Tax Justice Joint submission on behalf of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and 100+ organizations and trade unions on the draft note of the INC on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation.

In July, ahead of the August negotiations, governments and stakeholders were invited to share inputs into the three workstreams.

📄 100+ civil society organisations and trade unions made three joint submissions: bit.ly/3GvVF69

The Start of the Negotiations for a UN Framework Convention on Tax: Maximising Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges - Global Tax Justice From August 4 - 15 countries are meeting at the UN Headquarters in NY for the first two negotiating sessions on a legally-binding global tax treaty.

📢 Now, Member States and stakeholders will meet at the UN in New York from August 4 - 15 for the first two negotiating sessions for a #UNTaxConvention.

➡️ Read more on the start of the negotiations here: bit.ly/4fhZatM

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.