Europe’s education gamble: Can the EU compete in a changing world?
Can Europe’s education and skills agenda tackle declining outcomes and innovation gaps to ensure competitiveness and cohesion?
Can Europe’s education and skills agenda tackle declining outcomes and innovation gaps to ensure competitiveness and cohesion?
The EU faces immense geopolitical and economic challenges in a multipolar world.
Today, on 13th of January 2025, Belgian trade unions demonstrate in Brussels against austerity measures.
Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle.
The 2024 Stability and Growth Pact reforms entrench austerity and stifle investment.
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
The Austrian far-right FPÖ’s likely return to government raises concerns about the erosion of liberal democracy.
Anton Hemerijck, Azizjon Bagadirov and Robin Wilson
Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social investment.
Amid crises, breakthroughs at the G20 and UN offer hope for global cooperation and fairness.
Trump’s return promises bold rhetoric but faces stark economic and global challenges.
How the EU must act to survive mounting global threats.
Elon Musk’s bid to “reinvent” government through Trump’s advisory DOGE commission will likely be a meme-worthy spectacle.
Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni and Kalina Arabadjieva
Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers.
Democrats must offer more than opposition—they need a bold vision for economic and political renewal.
Concentrated labour markets and non-compete agreements erode worker bargaining power.
Progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline.
Grand promises of a “strong social Europe” have given way to a sidelined agenda.