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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · 18d

We reiterate, reaffirm, remain commited, continue to support ... many ways for @g20org.bsky.social
to say 'nothing changes in the broken debt architecture'
The SA led G20 debt declaration illustrates how the G20 is NOT the space to advance solutions to #DebtCrisis www.resbank.co.za/content/dam/...

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 21d

South Africa’s #G20 presidency has the potential to catalyse meaningful global #debt reform, but so far nothing tangible has been achieved.
1️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ organisations have called on @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social to take action on the #debtcrisis.
Read the call here➡️ www.eurodad.org/letter_to_sa...

While this year's G20 has been put forward as an 'African G20', there is no evidence that any progress has been made on the debt crisis facing Africa and many other countries worldwide.

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 Economic, #Climate & #GenderJustice
Caring for one = caring for all

European leaders have missed an opportunity to show their support for #EconomicJustice reform at #FfD4 next week.

Now more than ever, we need an #EraOfJustice!

Join us in Sevilla 🪭 www.eraofjustice.org/sign-the-pet...

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

Many other interesting proposals that we’ll need to review more carefully, some fully aligned with
@eurodad
and global civil society ☺️ and others raising some doubts 🤔
Great have this to continue calling for a better and fairer debt architecture and #CancelTheDebt
(6/6)

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

👎The report doesn’t reflect on the proposal by many global south countries and civil society on the need for a #DebtConvention and a multilateral debt resolution mechanism eurodad.org/un_framework...
👍But it calls for the creation of an international bankruptcy court
(5/6)

UN framework convention on sovereign debt - Building a new debt architecture for economic justice

European Network on Debt and Development

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

#JubileeCommission states “If we don't reform the system itself, we'll continue to reproduce the very dynamics that led us here. The international financial architecture must be redesigned”
We’re all in for international financial architecture systemic transformation
(4/6)

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

⚠️HIPC was not unconditional, opening the door for many neoliberal reforms that then led to new debts
We need to learn from what worked (#CancelTheDebt) and what didn’t work
🤔It doesn't seem the report does that in detail
But good to see such a clear call for #DebtRelief (3/6)

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

🧐The report rightly points at the need for #DebtCancellation, calling HIPC II.
While I agree on the need for broad debt cancellation of all unsustainable (& illegitimate) debts, it needs to be unconditional 🤔 (2/6) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Developing countries ‘need more debt relief’ to fund education and health

Research warns poorer governments prioritising debt payments over essential development spending

www.theguardian.com

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Iolanda Fresnillo @ifresnillo.bsky.social · Jun 20

📜Today
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
& #JubileeCommission presented their report on how to tackle the #debt and development crises
An important contribution to a heated and key debate
ipdcolumbia.org/publication/...
A short 🧵on first impressions (1/6)

The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy - Initiative for Policy Dialogue

On June 20, 2025 the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) and Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) published a report by a commission of global experts calling for urgent...

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Jun 14

The #EU and #UK are stopping the global south from having a say by blocking UN-led #debt reform in #FfD4 outcome document. 👎

Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...

"The refusal by the EU and UK to support a debt reform process at the UN is deeply concerning. the outcome of these talks will have
far-reaching consequences for the global financial system and the lives of billions across the Global South." Iolanda Fresnillo, Eurodad

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Observatori del Deute en la Globalització @observatoriodg.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎂 Fa #25AnysODG que reclamem justícia financera i climàtica, i la defensa dels béns comuns.

🌐 Som més necessàries que mai les persones i entitats que lluitem contra el poder corporatiu.

✊ Ajuda'ns a seguir lluitant a contracorrent. Fes-te sòcia: odg.cat/odg-25e-aniv...

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Different rules of the game would have radically changed history.
Our counterfactual simulations show that without colonial transfers, Europe would have been a debtor — and South Asia or Latin America could have become global creditors.
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database

In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.

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Eulàlia Reguant i Cura @aramateix.bsky.social · Jun 7

Avui se celebren els 25 anys de @observatoriodg.bsky.social: escola de formació en l'anàlisi del deute com a mecanisme d'opressió i despossessió del capitalisme i escola de formació en la construcció d'alternatives davant del poder de les corporacions transnacionals. #25anysODG

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Observatori del Deute en la Globalització @observatoriodg.bsky.social · May 27

🆕 Ja disponible l'episodi Desenredades #29: '2025, una nova oportunitat per la justícia financera?'.

🎙️ Amb @ifresnillo.bsky.social (@eurodadnews.bsky.social) i Nicola Scherer (ODG) per fer memòria sobre 25 anys de lluita per la cancel·lació del deute extern.

🎧 www.ivoox.com/desenredades...

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Observatori del Deute en la Globalització @observatoriodg.bsky.social · Jun 2

💸 Cada vegada hi ha més països que destinen un 20% o un 30% dels seus pressupostos a pagar el deute extern, alerta @ifresnillo.bsky.social, d'@eurodadnews.bsky.social, en el nostre pòdcast. És una situació insostenible!

🎧 #Desenredades 29:
odg.cat/desenredades...

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Jun 3

#FfD4 will not be a success without any meaningful #debt reform!
But rich countries' fear of an inclusive process - where borrowing countries can participate on equal footing with creditors - is blocking the process.
#EraOfJustice

@ifresnillo.bsky.social

The EU and other European countries like the UK, have done nothing but to defend the status quo and offer peanuts in FfD4 negotiations.

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Observatori del Deute en la Globalització @observatoriodg.bsky.social · Jun 7

💬 Comencem el diàleg sobre el passat, present i futur de les lluites contra el deute amb @ifresnillo.bsky.social , Brid Brennan, Lidy Nacpil i la Birch.

Quins aprenentatges ens donen les lluites dels últims 25 anys?

#25anysODG

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · Jun 5

The @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's DAC Chair says int'l development cooperation needs more 'transparency & accountability'.
We agree, but we can't wait for another closed-door reflection exercise. Any redesign must take place in the only fully inclusive space where all countries have an equal say - the UN

Open letter

DAC CSO reference group

Our long-standing call for a UN Convention on International Development Cooperation remains as relevant and urgent as ever.

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · May 27

1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ countries in the #GlobalSouth are critically indebted.
👉#FfD4 won’t be a success without #DebtReform!
The #EU’s latest proposal is woefully insufficient, but it’s not too late for @ec.europa.eu & @europarl.europa.eu to support an #EraOfJustice.
Get involved! eurodad.org/jubilee_2025_petition

On a yellow background, the words ‘Cancel the debt’ are in the top left corner. Underneath is a square image of a megaphone, taken looking directly into it. The megaphone obscures the person holding it.

On a hot pink background in yellow text is written: “No justice without breaking the global chains of debt”

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Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · May 26

Today’s @press.consilium.europa.eu Conclusions are disappointing, but EU countries can still show more ambition in the 40 days left until #Ffd4.

Read our joint reaction with @eurodadnews.bsky.social & @actionaideu.bsky.social 👇
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · May 26

⚠️The #EU is not going to deliver the ambition needed for Sevilla, unless they show more ambition in the remaining. +/- 40 days.
Read our joint reaction with @oxfameu.bsky.social & @actionaideu.bsky.social to the @consilium.europa.eu Conclusions 👉 ow.ly/Ze0N50VYNqU

It's not too late for EU Countries to back outcomes that will deliver a better future for the world's poorest people.

Jean Saldanha
Director
Eurodad

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Caritas Europa @caritaseuropa.bsky.social · May 20

👏Today, the @europarl.europa.eu #DEVE Committee made the right choice and voted for the #EU to support the creation of a #UNDebtConvention in the context of the #FfD4. In line with the Caritas Internationalis #TurnDebtintoHope campaign, it's now time for the @consilium.europa.eu to follow through!

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · May 20

We welcome the @europarl.europa.eu #Development Committee's support for a #UNDebtConvention in today's historical #FfD4 vote.
The UN is the only 🌍 institution with equal representation & can guarantee that creditors' interests aren't prioritised over the needs of millions of people!
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3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest than on health or education

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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · May 12

📢 Economic, #Climate & #GenderJustice
Caring for one = caring for all

In 50 days 🌍 leaders will set the stage for #EconomicJustice for the next decade at #FfD4
🪧Join our campaign & tell European leaders it's time for an #EraOfJustice!
Learn more: eraofjustice.org

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