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Barcelona: a feminist municipalism now at riskPolitics

Barcelona: a feminist municipalism now at risk

Laura Pérez Castaño

Barcelona has shown the transformative role urban municipalities can play in conjunction with local civil society.

Is Spain on the right track?Politics

Is Spain on the right track?

Bettina Luise Rürup

If Spaniards vote for the right next month, Spain would be yet another country in its growing European bulwark.

Crisis at Britain’s CBI holds lessons for othersSociety

Crisis at Britain’s CBI holds lessons for others

Marianna Fotaki

Organisations which want to end workplace harassment must start by addressing power imbalances.

Central and eastern Europe: a renewable-energy win-winEcology

Central and eastern Europe: a renewable-energy win-win

Paweł Czyżak

CEE countries have large wind and solar potential. Greening power supplies would also reduce prices.

Tackling inequality in the city—Cape TownSociety

Tackling inequality in the city—Cape Town

Warren Smit

Today’s global cities are characterised by high inequality. They need supportive multi-level governance to address it.

Reform of EU fiscal rules—more ambition neededEconomy

Reform of EU fiscal rules—more ambition needed

Philipp Heimberger

What the European Commission proposes makes sense as far as it goes. But that is not nearly far enough.

How green Europeans can cure Earth’s climate bluesEcology

How green Europeans can cure Earth’s climate blues

Mats Engström

The EU needs to redouble efforts to build coalitions and form alliances with key states—especially in the global south.

Exploiting every crisis: why the FPÖ is topping the pollsPolitics

Exploiting every crisis: why the FPÖ is topping the polls

Gabriela Greilinger

At the heart of the scandal that broke the right-wing coalition government in 2019, the Freedom Party is now riding high.

EU enlargement: prospects and challengesPolitics

EU enlargement: prospects and challenges

Emilija Tudzarovska

The geopolitical impetus behind further EU enlargement meets formidable forces of inertia.

Erdoğan, ultranationalists and ‘family values’Politics

Erdoğan, ultranationalists and ‘family values’

Balki Begumhan Bayhan

The victorious Turkish president is likely to pursue a hardline conservative agenda with his ultranationalist allies.

Decarbonising the built environment: circularity keyEcology

Decarbonising the built environment: circularity key

Ivan Thung and Megan Murdie

The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges.

Politically disengaged youth in the former eastern blocPolitics

Politically disengaged youth in the former eastern bloc

Michael Jennewein and Elena Avramovska

Young people across the eastern-EU member states believe in Europe and universal norms—but their governments turn them off.

Europe’s just transition—still out of reachEcology

Europe’s just transition—still out of reach

Amandine Crespy and Mario Munta

If it holds on to ‘green growth’ and tight fiscal constraints, the EU will be unable to negotiate a just transition.

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The four transitions and the missing one

Europe is at a crossroads, painfully navigating four transitions (green, digital, economic and geopolitical) at once but missing the transformative and ambitious social transition it needs. In other words, if the EU is to withstand the storm, we do not have the luxury of abstaining from reflecting on its social foundations, of which intermittent democratic discontent is only one expression. It is against this background that the ETUI/ETUC publishes its annual flagship publication Benchmarking Working Europe 2023, with the support of more than 70 graphs and a special contribution from two guest editors, Professors Kalypso Nikolaidïs and Albena Azmanova.


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Eurofound advertisement

Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe

Unaffordable housing is a matter of great concern in the European Union. It leads to homelessness, housing insecurity, financial strain and inadequate housing. It also prevents young people from leaving their family home. These problems affect people’s health and wellbeing, embody unequal living conditions and opportunities, and result in healthcare costs, reduced productivity and environmental damage.

This new report maps housing problems in the EU and the policies that address them, drawing on Eurofound’s Living, working and Covid-19 e-survey, EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions and input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents.


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Foundation for European Progressive Studies Advertisement

The spring issue of the Progressive Post magazine from FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to Feminist Foreign Policy, to try to gauge its potential but also the risk that it could be perceived as another attempt by the west to impose its vision on the global south.

In this issue, we also look at the human cost of the war in Ukraine, analyse the increasing connection between the centre right and the far right, and explore the difficulties, particularly for women, of finding a good work-life balance and living good working lives.


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Hans Böckler Stiftung Advertisement

The macroeconomic effects of re-applying the EU fiscal rules

Against the background of the European Commission's reform plans for the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), this policy brief uses the macroeconometric multi-country model NiGEM to simulate the macroeconomic implications of the most relevant reform options from 2024 onwards. Next to a return to the existing and unreformed rules, the most prominent options include an expenditure rule linked to a debt anchor.

Our results for the euro area and its four biggest economies—France, Italy, Germany and Spain—indicate that returning to the rules of the SGP would lead to severe cuts in public spending, particularly if the SGP rules were interpreted as in the past. A more flexible interpretation would only somewhat ease the fiscal-adjustment burden. An expenditure rule along the lines of the European Fiscal Board would, however, not necessarily alleviate that burden in and of itself.

Our simulations show great care must be taken to specify the expenditure rule, such that fiscal consolidation is achieved in a growth-friendly way. Raising the debt ceiling to 90 per cent of gross domestic product and applying less demanding fiscal adjustments, as proposed by the IMK, would go a long way.


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