Positive Money Europe

19/08/2026

❓Know someone who's excellent with budgets and genuinely cares about economic justice?

We're a Finance and Operations Manager to lead our grant finances and operations - the work that makes the rest of our advocacy possible.
✨ Permanent contract, hybrid working, great benefits
✨ Small team, real impact
✨ Full-time or part-time from 50%

Tag them, or apply yourself 👇
https://positivemoney.org/vacancy/finance-and-operations-manager-2026/

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

14/08/2026

🚀 We're ! Finance and Operations Manager, in Brussels.

If you're great with numbers and want that skill to go toward something bigger than another company's bottom line - this is it. You'd lead the financial management of our grants and help keep Positive Money Europe's fight for a fairer economic system funded and running.

💶 Lead grant budgets and funder reporting
📊 Manage day-to-day finance admin
🗂️ Coordinate HR, payroll, procurement and Board logistics

✅ Permanent contract
✅ €3,819.36/month gross, full-time (part-time from 50% possible)
✅ Hybrid working, Brussels + home
✅ Strong benefits package (pension, health insurance, meal vouchers & more)

📅 Apply by September 9th: https://positivemoney.org/vacancy/finance-and-operations-manager-2026/

12/08/2026

FACTS:
🔥The bill from this summer’s across the hardest-hit Eurozone countries has already cost €3.1 billion.
💧Dried-up rivers (such as the Rhine and the Danube) are choking German logistics (petro-chemical, heavy industry) and forcing nuclear power plants to scale back operations.
📉According to the European Central Bank, the Middle East crisis and rising fuel prices have shattered consumer sentiment, dragging down demand.
🌾30% of global fertiliser trade normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, directly threatening global food production.
🌡️According to Oxford Economics, will be a stronger upward driver of food prices next year than the war itself.

THE QUESTION:
Faced with these external shocks, how will the ECB react? Do central bankers honestly believe that raising interest rates according to the old playbook will make water flow back into the rivers, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or extinguish the wildfires?

It is crystal clear that the we are experiencing, driven by climate change and supply shocks, has nothing to do with the excess demand traditional models assume. Economists and the public can already see this reality.

What are central bankers waiting for to act and adopt a truly green monetary policy?

24/07/2026

Have you heard that the will threaten your privacy, replace cash, or destabilise banks?

None of this is true - but the myths keep spreading, often pushed by industries that don't want a public alternative to their services.

As EU negotiations enter a crucial stage, we break down the 4 most common myths about the digital euro and explain what's really at stake for YOUR money. 🧵

Read it here:

As the digital euro enters trilogue talks, we debunk 4 persistent myths - from privacy fears to claims it will destabilise banks and replace cash.

20/07/2026

What's on our summer reading (and watching, and listening) list? 📖🎬🎧

Every year we round up the books, films and podcasts that have shaped how we think about money, power and the economy. This year: central banking, the politics of energy, climate displacement, and the hidden economics of women's empowerment.

Take a look - you might find your next favourite read, or movie, or podcast 👇

Positive Money Europe's 2026 summer list: books, films and podcasts on money, energy politics, and climate change.

13/07/2026

While EU bureaucrats sit in air-conditioned rooms debating whether there is a "business case" for adapting to climate change, reality is crashing through the windows.

The climate crisis is not more a "long-term problem”. It is happening NOW, in the summer of 2026, and the ground-level reality in our cities has crossed into the absurd:
🚨In Berlin, police are literally deploying water cannons to douse citizens and keep them from overheating in 41°C heat.
🚨In Brussels, temperatures in low-income, concrete neighborhoods are up to 9°C hotter at night than in the suburbs where wealthy people live.

With annual economic damages already clearing €90 billion and excess deaths ticking up by the thousands, this is no longer just about inflation. It is a matter of survival.

We need a coordination of fiscal and monetary policy, meaning the European Central Bank and governments finally working together and incentivize the massive green investments required to slow this crisis down. The tools are there, the political will needs to follow. What are we waiting for?

👉🏻 https://www.ft.com/content/5f069b03-f694-48da-951e-98c5923a14e4?syn-25a6b1a6=1

In an air-conditioned Luxembourg meeting, ministers call for a ‘business case’ for coping with the world’s fastest-warming continent

09/07/2026

🎉 It's official: the is moving forward!

The European Parliament just voted in plenary, with 416 votes in favour, to send the digital euro into its next stage: negotiations with the Council and Commission. 🇪🇺

Next up: making sure it's designed to work for everyone, as public money should do.

06/07/2026

The clock ran out on 7 June, and almost no one showed up.

That's when EU countries were supposed to have pay transparency laws in place. Only 4 out of 27 - Slovakia, Italy, Lithuania and Malta - made it happen. Sweden and Germany are openly opposing the directive.

Writing in EUobserver, Isabelle Schömann of the European Trade Union Confederation doesn't mince words: this is economic violence against women.
Every year of delay costs the average woman €3,800. Across the EU, that's €358 billion drained from women's pockets, every single year.

The law exists. The evidence is overwhelming. What's missing is the political will to enforce it.

Read Isabelle's full piece 👇
https://euobserver.com/225126/at-11-percent-the-eus-gender-pay-gap-is-nothing-less-than-economic-violence-against-women/

In 2026, a woman worker in average working in the EU still earns 11.1 percent less her male counterpart. Not because she works less, or contributes less, but because the system has been carefully designed to keep her in the dark about it.

02/07/2026

2025 was a tough year for progressive economic reform - but our team kept showing up. 💪

Our new Annual Report covers:
🔹 Becoming a leading voice on the digital euro
🔹 A real win: the ECB greening its collateral rules, inspired by our research
🔹 65 media mentions, 48 outlets, 9 joint letters
🔹 Strengthening our commitment to equity, inside and out

None of this is possible without you. Behind every stat is our team's work and our shared determination to fight for the public interest, not the elites.

Read the full report 🌍💶

See what Positive Money Europe achieved in 2025 - from digital euro advocacy to ECB reform.

23/06/2026

👏👏 Great news: the European Parliament's economic committee has finally adopted its position on the digital euro, an important step towards bringing public money into the digital era and strengthening EU monetary and payment sovereignty.

The text includes several improvements that we have long advocated for, but it also falls short in two crucial areas:
- Public distribution should be available to everyone, not only to those who are unbanked or digitally excluded.
-Holding limits must be high enough for people to use the digital euro for everyday payments, recurring costs, and real-life needs.
This vote shows that policymakers are increasingly recognising the value of public digital money as a complement to cash and private payment systems.
But the fight is not over. We will continue to monitor developments closely to ensure that the digital euro serves people, strengthens European monetary sovereignty, and protects the public interest.

Watch the full video below! And read more here: https://bit.ly/4wpYslJ