About: Isabelle Durant
Financing a ‘global new deal’: How to collect a trillion dollars
One trillion dollars. This “global stimulus” could change the world if a 5% tax hike is imposed on the “top decile” – the 10% richest segment of the population, a report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is proposing.
The intergovernmental drift has weakened the EU, says Parliament’s VP
The Lisbon Treaty paradox, under which more power was given to the European Parliament, but EU leaders have gained in prominence, has undermined Europe and paved the way for growing Euroscepticism, said European Parliament Vice-president, Isabelle Durant, in an exclusive interview with EURACTIV.