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Reuters: 130 Countries Back Global Minimum Corporate Tax of 15%
July 05, 2021
At the recent talks held by Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development the majority of the countries, with the exception nine countries including Hungary, Estonia, and Ireland, negotiated a global overhaul of cross-border taxation of multinationals backing new rules where companies are taxed a tax rate of at least 15%.
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Young: How Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Reporting Evolved
June 30, 2021
Denise Young writing for strategy-business.com explores the history of ESG and how what started out as a way to measure the environmental, social, and governance performance of a company for the purposes of gauging risk is now a major force driving business strategy.
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Terranova Think Tank: “Globalization of Progressivism”
June 30, 2021
Terranova Think Tank has published a paper by Pascal Canfin who calls for the strengthening and acceleration of « globalization of progressivism », describing its features and strategic objectives of inventing a new model of prosperity.
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Big Corporations Lobby for a New EU Legal Regime
June 28, 2021
Researchers at Corporate Europe Observatory have discovered a report that reveals how banks, lobby groups, corporate lawyers and lobby consultancies are pushing for a new legal regime that would enable industry to bypass national courts when settling disputes with EU member states.
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Germany Passes Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Law
June 23, 2021
In a move that takes voluntary compliance to mandatory, the German parliament passed the “Law on corporate due diligence in supply chains” (“Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz”) requiring companies implement policies to prevent human rights violations in their supply chains.
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