GPF Europe’s core mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations. This includes thematic areas such as sustainable development, human rights, and financing for development as well as global governance, multilateralism, and the funding and reform of the United Nations system.
The UN is the most inclusive international organization with nearly universal membership and commitments to peace, sustainable development and human rights. GPF Europe has a two-pronged approach - to advocate for values espoused by the UN and its agreements, while monitoring and exposing impediments that challenge proper UN operations. These include increasing corporate capture of policy-making at the UN, inadequate funding from the Member States and disregard of their UN agreements.
In this section we post information, analyses, documents, and background material related to multilateralism, the state of the United Nations and its reform, the financing of international organizations, the role of various international “clubs” (like the G20), new forms of public-private interactions, like multi-stakeholder initiatives and global partnerships, the modi operandi of global institutions and their subsidiary bodies, and the role of civil society organizations and social movements. Additional material such as tables and charts on UN Finance is available in our archive.
By Celia Sudhoff
For several weeks now, Germany has been engaged in an intense debate about the welfare state. This was triggered by a statement made by Chancellor Merz at the CDU's North Rhine-Westphalia state party conference in Bonn at the end of August: “We simply can no longer afford the system we have today.” Specifically, he wants to cut welfare payments and relieve the burden on the pension funds by making it more attractive to work into old age [...]
