The IRA and European industrial policy
With the US turning interventionist, the EU will look foolish still backing ‘free markets’. Time for an enterprise policy.
politics, economy and employment & labour
With the US turning interventionist, the EU will look foolish still backing ‘free markets’. Time for an enterprise policy.
If Ajay Banga is confirmed as World Bank president he will have to meet the demands of a global south eager for change.
Events in Georgia represent a setback for Russia’s meddling in the post-Soviet neighbourhood. But they are no sign it will end.
Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.
Mass layoffs have hit large technology companies. Previously well-paid workers suddenly became the target of brutal firings.
The government’s efforts to deflect responsibility for the train disaster have failed to contain public outrage.
Patrick ten Brink and Luke Haywood
The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.
Social democrats, Lisa Pelling writes, should abandon the idea of meritocracy if they are to reconnect with les classes populaires.
Germany has made significant strides to transcend ordoliberal nostra. But huge obstacles still stand in the way of progress.
The media storm in Britain around a television personality speaks volumes about why the UK has become a dysfunctional state.
Companies are making ‘carbon neutral’ claims based on dubious emissions offsetting and ‘insetting’—rather than actual cuts.
Estrella Durá Ferrandis and Cristina Lago Godefroid
The European mental-health strategy should recognise the burdens women face—and the role of culture in lightening them.
Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, whose consequences compound it.
European societies are less polarised than in the United States—and than we are led to believe.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington
Growing reliance on big consultancies is stunting state capacity and undermining democratic accountability.
Learning to learn must be embedded in working life, Sofia Fernandes writes, if the EU is to meet social and economic goals.
Kateryna Semchuk and Thomas Rowley
The European Union says Ukraine’s reforms must follow international labour standards.
The huge demonstrations against the pension ‘reform’ stem from accumulating resentment under Emmanuel Macron.
Isabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu
Glancing across the Atlantic, austerity and deregulation will make Europe neither competitive nor green.
EU institutions have taken a position weakening international standards and risking bank stability.
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