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Ukraine reforms welfare system as cost of war risesSociety

Ukraine reforms welfare system as cost of war rises

Kateryna Semchuk and Thomas Rowley

Social support will become means-tested as millions of Ukrainians face war, displacement and poverty.

Europe needs a social compassSociety

Europe needs a social compass

Esther Lynch, Nicola Countouris and Philippe Pochet

Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential.

Oh, Europe!?—a vision is still neededPolitics

Oh, Europe!?—a vision is still needed

Günther Schmid

Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.

Financing the common goodEconomy

Financing the common good

Mariana Mazzucato

The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.

How to prevent a housing crisisSociety

How to prevent a housing crisis

Hans Dubois

The cost-of-living crisis threatens to tip over into a housing crisis. Prevention is better than cure.

EIB: dispensing billions to corporate profiteersEcology

EIB: dispensing billions to corporate profiteers

Frank Vanaerschot and Paul Creeney

The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.

A message for May Day: come together, win changeEconomy

A message for May Day: come together, win change

Esther Lynch

Workers are under tremendous pressure amid the cost-of-living crisis. But trade unions are showing resilience to inspire.

Mayday, mayday: a warning from the labour movementEconomy

Mayday, mayday: a warning from the labour movement

Veronica Nilsson

Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.

Russia scales back Victory Day celebrationsPolitics

Russia scales back Victory Day celebrations

Dina Fainberg

In the context of the Ukraine war, Russia is scaling back the May 9th Victory Day celebrations, amid fear of popular protests.

How Russians fightPolitics

How Russians fight

Nina L Khrushcheva

Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.

Why AI might not take your job, just yetEconomy

Why AI might not take your job, just yet

German Bender

Recent developments in artificial intelligence have rekindled fears of technological unemployment—fuelled by technological determinism.

Price and profit curbs—or how really to fight inflationEconomy

Price and profit curbs—or how really to fight inflation

Susanne Wixforth and Kaoutar Haddouti

A crude, one-club monetary policy has already caused bank collapses. More damage will follow more interest-rate hikes.

Unlocking vacant properties to tackle homelessnessSociety

Unlocking vacant properties to tackle homelessness

Clotilde Clark-Foulquier

Europe’s cities have many social outsiders. Lessons are emerging on how ‘housing first’ can include them.

ETUI advertisement

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

New Europe-wide survey on living and working conditions

Eurofound, in partnership with the European Training Foundation, has launched a new online survey to document living and working conditions in Europe and the evolving concerns of citizens, amid the cost-of-living crisis, the war in Ukraine and the broader post-Covid-19 context.

The survey is available in 33 languages and is open to everyone over the age of 16. It asks specific questions on perceptions of quality of life and quality of society, as well as working situation, housing and finances.

Add your voice and contribute to the research.


COMPLETE THE SURVEY HERE

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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