The World Needs Europe to Get Its Act Together – Fast
If Europe is to assert itself on the global stage it needs to restore its self-confidence. Europe’s leaders must have the courage to chart their own course.
If Europe is to assert itself on the global stage it needs to restore its self-confidence. Europe’s leaders must have the courage to chart their own course.
Against plutocrats and autocrats, the progressive response must be active defence of equality—not as slogan, but also as material condition.
The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain's path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe.
Europe's industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.
Nearly a quarter of EU children face poverty—member states must learn from each other's policy successes.
As great powers abandon international law with impunity, Europe must unite or risk fragmentation and subordination.
Blaming labour protections for factory closures is not industrial policy — it is avoidance dressed as reform.
The European Commission's "simplification" package is, in fact, a deregulatory intervention that weakens workers' data rights.
Daniel Gros recommends targeted export tariffs, taxes on royalties, and the elimination of US Treasuries’ risk-free status.
The EU's proposed long-term budget sacrifices the very regional investment and social resilience that underpin competitiveness.
Current legal frameworks leave workers dangerously exposed; only a binding directive can close the gaps.
As empires grab resources and discard international law, the EU must forge a new social federalism—or become a vassal.
Branko Milanovic asks whether we should continue to teach comparative economic systems to broaden students' horizons, or if the global ubiquity of capitalism renders such historical study obsolete.
Europe's financial sector is racing to adopt artificial intelligence—but workers are being left behind without a voice in the transformation.
Gordon Brown emphasizes that America’s withdrawal from 66 international organizations is at odds with global public opinion.