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Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona is Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and commissioner of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT).
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Glimmers of global progress in a crumbling world

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Amid crises, breakthroughs at the G20 and UN offer hope for global cooperation and fairness.

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Tax on billionaires—political vaccine against the far right

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Real solutions to the crises fuelling the far right needs demand public investment. The super-rich must pay their share.

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Will states support corporate capture of the future?

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.

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Taxing the super-rich: a tool to close the gender gap

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

If gender equality is to be more than an International Women’s Day gesture, revenue must be raised for massive investment.

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How to strengthen women’s resilience to disasters

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, whose consequences compound it.

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Taxing super-profits to beat inflation, defend rights

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Pandemics, wars and recessions do not exempt states from human-rights commitments. They must tax multinationals and the richest more to protect the most vulnerable. 

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The recovery will be green and feminist or it won’t be

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Chile’s new constitution could be the first to embody egalitarian and ecological principles.

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Tax justice—a crucial tool to advance human rights

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

On Human Rights Day, the world looks a lot different through a lens of social and economic rights.

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Taxing better to create more caring—and feminist—societies

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

International Women’s Day falls in the shadow of a pandemic which has hit women hard around the world.

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Advancing gender equality requires a new fiscal pact

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

Women’s strikes today draw attention to the need for global tax reform, so that investment in services can ease the burden of women’s domestic labour.

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S&D conference The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision, 9 September 2026, European Parliament, Brussels

S&D conference “The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision”

The S&D Group is pleased to invite you to our conference “The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision” on Wednesday, 9 September, from 14:30 to 18:30, in the European Parliament in Brussels as well as online, where we will discuss the geopolitical changes taking place in the Middle East.

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Cover of the ETUI report Climate change and workers’ health: protecting workers against heat and other climate-related hazards, by Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni and Andreas D. Flouris.

New Report - Climate change and workers’ health

After a summer marked by repeated heatwaves across Europe, this publication tackles an increasingly urgent issue: workplace heat exposure, now one of the leading climate-related threats to workers' health. The report identifies the sectors and workers most at risk, and calls for a dedicated EU directive to strengthen and harmonise their protection.

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EurofoundTalks podcast with Mary McCaughey and Eszter Sandor: Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.

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Cover of The Progressive Post issue 31, Summer 2026: The Mediterranean, a crowded sea.

The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out! 

The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

The new issue of the magazine also reflects on how we struggle to keep pace with AI innovations, examines the uncertainties surrounding the execution of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the risk to human rights posed by the Return Regulation, and focuses on the EU Commission's newly proposed Industrial Accelerator Act.

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WSI blog series “Climate Transition: Socially Just and Fair”: How the climate crisis and global migration are linked, by Neva Löw and Maximilian Pichl

How the climate crisis and global migration are linked

The climate crisis and global migration are closely linked. Emancipatory forces must demand and defend the right to be able to leave, but not to have to leave. This means defending and expanding asylum rights.

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Cover of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung analysis The Capability State: A Progressive Vision for the 21st Century by Henning Meyer.

“What is the actual purpose of the state?” – this central question is the focus of the analysis. At a time when bureaucratic processes are making life difficult for citizens, the paper proposes a three-part model. It aims at a conception of the state as a platform that helps society build the capabilities it needs to address its problems effectively.

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