Gabriel Zucman, former academic at the University of California (Berkeley), is director of the International Tax Observatory in Paris. He is the ideologue behind the 2% global minimum tax on the ultra-rich with assets exceeding $1 billion, which would affect 3,000 people worldwide. This interview took place on the occasion of the Global Progressive Mobilisation, which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona.
With the permission of Trump, Khamenei and the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations for a possible merger between the American giant Estée Lauder and the Catalan multinational Puig are moving forward. Beyond geopolitical tensions, the operation “makes sense
Sílvia Orriols has turned the Parliament chamber into her most effective set. She does not participate in committees and disappears when other groups question the Government. They don’t interest her. Orriols makes the most of her five minutes of confrontation with the President of the Generalitat and is
Rhapsody is a ‘stitched song’: epic poems assembled in ancient Greece, popular airs and intertwined melodies, free music that united seemingly unrelated themes in Romanticism. The Hungarian musician Franz Liszt composed some famous rhapsodies. A Hungarian patriot of German origin -in Central Europe, identities formed a very complex mosaic- Liszt wanted to pay homage to Hungarian popular music with about twenty rhapsodies. Hungarian has been the music this week.
A French soldier from the UN force deployed in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed this Saturday and three other soldiers were injured -two of them very seriously- in an attack recorded in the south of that country which President Emmanuel Macron attributed to Hezbollah. Hours later, this pro-Iranian Shiite militia issued a statement denying any involvement in the ambush against the blue helmet contingent, which sparked all kinds of speculation.
Iran stated this Saturday that it has reimposed “strict control” over the Strait of Hormuz, alluding to a new closure of the strategic passage one day after announcing its reopening to allow the transit of commercial vessels. The Persian country thus responds to the blockade maintained by the United States against Iranian ports.
In Milan, the “patriots” wanted to flex their muscles, but ended up like a meeting of orphans: more melancholy than vehemence. The date of this Saturday’s European far-right rally had been conceived with a slogan, “remigration,” the flagship concept of the continent’s new far-right, which united all populist right-wing parties, members of the parliamentary group promoted by Viktor Orbán, who nevertheless did not appear in Milan, and inspired by that Donald Trump who, during hours of demonstrations and speeches, was not cited even once, beyond allusions perceptible only to journalists and embassy analysts.
The finance ministers of Spain and Brazil, Arcadi España and Dario Durigan, held a meeting this Saturday, parallel to the progressive summit and the summit in defense of democracy held in Barcelona, to boost an initiative that both countries already agreed upon last July in Seville: The launch of an international coalition to tax the super-rich with a specific tax to address inequality and wealth concentration.
It is a mistake to think that we are better. Seeing the world as a competition between good and bad only leads to more political, economic, and military confrontations. That is why I believe it is a mistake to gather a few progressive leaders in Barcelona without including others
The same weekend that Barcelona hosted the progressive summit and an event with various Latin American leaders in defense of Democracy, in Madrid, the presence of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado stood out. She received an award from the Community of Madrid from its president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and met in the preceding hours with both the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and that of Vox, Santiago Abascal, as well as the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida.