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EU ‘grey list’ should not let tax havens off the hook
EU finance ministers have today adopted the first EU blacklist of tax havens. The list includes 17 mostly small countries.
EU support for Libyan coastguard at odds with new initiative to save lives
On the sidelines of the AU-EU summit in Abidjan, the United Nations, the African Union and the European Union have announced they will put in place a joint task force to save the lives of migrants and refugees in Libya. But at the same time, European support for the Libyan coastguard contributes to stopping and returning people who are trying to escape the hell they are facing in Libya, a policy Oxfam condemns.
Quint countries fail to open up Yemen's ports
The failure to agree to break the blockade of Yemen will ensure more misery is heaped onto millions of people who are running out of food, fuel, medicines and even clean water.
Industry MEPs vote to keep subsidising food-based biofuels until 2030
A proposal by the European Parliament’s industry committee on the use of biofuels risks increasing emissions in transport, pushing up global food prices and negatively impacting people around the world who live from the land, Oxfam and green NGO Transport & Environment warn.
Conditions for talks on return of Rohingya refugees not yet in place
Refugees are still arriving, deeply traumatized by what they have experienced, and must have the right to choose for themselves whether they would like to return to Myanmar.
Yemen: reopening of ports to aid only is pitiful bartering with people's lives
In response to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition's announcement to reopen Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport to humanitarian assistance, Oxfam says this is an empty gesture while millions of Yemenis sees their lives threatened by the two-week blockade on the country.
Ambitious vision lacking in EU’s 2018 budget, say NGOs
The EU has decided its budget for 2018 with cuts long-term development aid that helps the poorest people. A coalition of development NGOs criticised the EU for putting its own short-term interests ahead of the people most in need.
Paradise Papers data files reveal industrial scale tax abuse
Following the release of data on thousands of companies and individuals registered with Appleby, the law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers scandal, Susana Ruiz, Oxfam’s policy advisor on tax
Reaction to launch of 'Powering Past Coal' Alliance
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Reaction to remarks by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron at Bonn climate summit
Government leaders, ministers, and other representatives from countries participating in the COP 23 climate summit in Bonn spoke at the start of the "high-level segment."
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