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Transparent Budgeting at its best – the City of Barcelona is showing the way

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Imagine a city or state budget where citizens could see at a glance where every euro, pound or dollar went or came from, which services were paid for by their taxes or rates, the distribution of the tax burden across different regions etc. You don’t need to imagine it. The City of Barcelona has delivered it. Click here for the OPEN BUDGET and here for STRATEGY & FINANCE. Europe’s rebel cities, adopting DiEM25’s transparency campaign, are leading the way!

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Screen Shot 2016-10-02 at 23.30.14.pngImagine a city or state budget where citizens could see at a glance where every euro, pound or dollar went or came from, which services were paid for by their taxes or rates, the distribution of the tax burden across different regions etc. You don’t need to imagine it. The City of Barcelona has delivered it. Click here for the OPEN BUDGET and here for STRATEGY & FINANCE. Europe’s rebel cities, adopting DiEM25’s transparency campaign, are leading the way!

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Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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