Dokumentation : Das eine Prozent: Vermögen und Ungleichheit in Europa

• The one percent: Wealth and inequality in Europe

Discussion with Thomas Piketty, Cansel Kiziltepe and Fabio De Masi

The pandemic deepens economic inequality. While the world's richest 1,000 billionaires took only nine months to make up for the corona-related losses, large sections of the population are under pressure. According to Oxfam, the world's poorest are facing a lost decade. In Germany and Europe, too, the pandemic will exacerbate the concentration of wealth. With a recent one-time capital levy on personal net wealth calculated by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the Faction of DIE LINKE in the German Bundestag and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung have provided an impetus for the reduction of wealth concentration.

With the star economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) as well as the Bundestag members Cansel Kiziltepe (from the social democratic SPD) and Fabio De Masi (DIE LINKE) we are talking about approaches to combat inequality also at European level. Is it desirable and feasible to argue for a wealth tax at European level? How do we get there?

• Opening: Daniela Trochowski, Managing Director of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
• Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics, author of "Capital in the 21st Century" and "Capital and Ideology"
• Cansel Kiziltepe, Deputy Spokesperson on Fiscal Policy of the SPD Parliamentary Group
• Fabio De Masi, Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Group and Spokesperson on Fiscal Policy of Die LINKE in the Bundestag
• Facilitator: Eva Völpel, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung