When I graduated from high school, my career aspiration was listed on my diploma: Habermas wants to become a journalist, it said. Yet once I began working for the Gummersbach section of the Cologne … Read More
Columns & Interviews
How To Resolve Europe’s Political Crisis Over Migration
Since the European Union’s migration crisis peaked in 2015, the number of illegal migrants arriving in the EU has fallen by 95%. Migration challenges remain, and reform of the EU’s methods for … Read More
The Last Chapter Of The Macedonian Question?
It all felt like the end of a James Bond movie: a flotilla of motorboats sailing across a peaceful lake in a Balkan landscape. On the shores of Lake Prespa, the prime ministers of Greece and … Read More
Are Money Matters Moral Matters? A Plea For ‘Yes’
Money matters. Money in national budget allocations determines who gets health care, who gets educated, who gets unemployment cover, which industries and companies are favored, and whether the country … Read More
Not An Abdication By The Left
James Downes and Edward Chan (Social Europe, 29 June) have written of the debacle of the social democratic Left in Europe and echoed others such as Sheri Berman who has claimed that this is because it … Read More
Flexibility And Labour Protection? “Wolf Full And Lamb Alive” Fairy Tale
The declared objectives of the proposed Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions published by the European Commission are praiseworthy but the measures envisaged are far from … Read More
Blogs
The New EU Budget Under The Constraints Of Brexit And The Debt Brake
The UK’s exit from the EU means a contributions gap of an estimated €10-14 billion per year, around 7 percent of the EU Budget. Thereby, the discussion about the multi-annual financial framework has … Read More
New Deal For Irish Families
With the repeal of the 8th amendment Irish women and their partners will have a choice if and when to have children later this year. This choice will have major implications for social policy and the … Read More
Trade Performance In EU Internal Market In Euro Era
European integration began as a political project to institutionalize peace and cooperation, with the Coal and Steel Community the initial step. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, roughly … Read More
Apple, Ireland And The New Green Jersey Tax Avoidance Technique
After the European Commission’s state aid ruling on Ireland, both Apple and the Irish government assured us that Apple has paid tax at Ireland’s statutory rate of 12.5% since 2014. But our research, … Read More
The Overlapping Crises Of Democracy, Globalization And Global Governance
The crisis of contemporary democracy has become a major subject of political commentary. But the symptoms of this crisis, the vote for Brexit and Trump, among other things, were not foreseen. Nor were … Read More
Explaining The Electoral Debacle Of Social Democratic Parties In Europe
Last year was a harrowing one for social democratic parties, underlined by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffering their worst electoral result in the postwar period, and the once powerful … Read More
Talks & Conversations
The Body Market, What Money Can’t Buy
Should you be able to sell your organs, or sell your body for sex? “The Body Market” explores the markets for selling your body parts and potentially your dignity. The director of the London School of … Read More
The Walrus Quota, What Money Can’t Buy
Market mechanisms may be efficient, but they may also change the meaning of the goods exchanged. Should we pay children to read, or pay countries to take our share of refugees? Does having tradable … Read More
Davos-Man Is Finally Being Challenged
Journalist and author of the best-selling book Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner, described in the New York Times as " a sprawling, engaging and at times infuriating feminist polemic", Katrine Marcal, in … Read More
Portugal: From Sick Man To Poster Boy
As finance minister, Mário Centeno is a key figure in Portugal at a time when the Portuguese economy is "especially interesting and, in many ways, especially successful": with unemployment halved from … Read More
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