The EU recovery plan must link company bailouts to enforcement of collective-bargaining rights.
Columns & Interviews
‘Shareholder value’ versus the public good: the case of Germany
Support for companies amid the pandemic must come with social and ecological strings attached.
Time to tackle the tax dodgers
With some bailed out companies continuing to pay dividends, the focus should shift to making big corporations contribute to the cost of recovery.
Priorities for the Covid-19 economy
The most urgent policy priorities have been obvious since the beginning, but they will require hard choices and a show of political will.
Carbon pricing and the exit from fossil fuels
Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.
Challenging patents key to make Covid-19 vaccine work for all
Finding a vaccine against the coronavirus is a biochemical challenge. Ensuring universal access to it, however, is a political choice.
The EU is muddling through another crisis—which may be good enough
The divisions exposed by the coronavirus have reopened fundamental questions about the ultimate aims of the EU. But now is not the time to answer them.
No more free-lunch bailouts
With governments spending on a massive scale to mitigate the economic fallout from Covid-19, they should be positioning their economies for a more sustainable future.
Emerging stronger from the crisis
Europe needs to do more at federal level if a recovery plan is to be successful.
Technological sovereignty—and a sepia-image Britain
Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values.
The Main Street manifesto
The historic protests which have swept America were long overdue, not just as a response to racism and police violence but also as a revolt against entrenched plutocracy.
Rekindled north-south stereotypes are harmful for the European project
Underlying the divisions bedeviling a recovery from the pandemic are stereotypes echoing those which emerged during the eurozone crisis.
A new social contract
The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model—a new social contract can help us build a new one.
Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms
Since AI involves interactions between machines and humans—rather than just the former replacing the latter—’explainable AI’ is a new challenge.
Blogs
A fossil fuel-free future is close at hand … if the EU wills it
An NGO-led, science-based scenario shows the European Union can become climate-neutral by 2040. All that is missing is the political will.
Let this time be different!
Europe needs a green industrial recovery strategy to exit the pandemic.
Seven ‘surprising’ facts about the Italian economy
Why would affluent northern-European taxpayers want to pour money into an Italian economy that is a basket-case? Except it isn’t.
Covid-19 fallout takes higher toll on women
While women appear to be more resilient than men to Covid-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout.
Europe needs a new Youth Guarantee
The Youth Guarantee has failed to deliver on its promise. The deepening economic crisis makes a well-functioning guarantee even more imperative.
