Reconciliation of procedural and distributive justice in the EU hinges on citizens’ support.
Columns & Interviews
How digitalisation must be harnessed to save jobs
A framework agreement between the social partners should ensure job security and worker involvement are prioritised across the European Union.
Activation during the pandemic downturn
Mandatory activation conditions for social-assistance recipients should be suspended during the pandemic.
Spain’s fight for a just recovery
The ERTE job-protection scheme to combat the economic effects of the pandemic has left Spain well-prepared to face its aftermath.
The supermarket of citizenship and European democracy
European citizenship must be invested with more political significance—and never treated as a commodity for sale.
Public debt monetisation and the credibility of the ECB
What stops public debt being monetised to avoid the pain of prolonged austerity after the pandemic? An obsolete economic theory of ‘credibility’.
The politics of identity and inclusion
Karin Pettersson argues that struggles around race and gender are fundamentally about inclusion on an equal footing in the political community.
Black lives matter in Europe too
No one should be smug about racism in Europe. Here too there is a toxic interaction between ethnicity, equality and the environment.
Remote working—an inflection point?
The pandemic has seen a surge in remote working. Collective agreements are needed to ensure individual autonomy, rather than monitored isolation, is the outcome.
The debt predators
The financial system has turned credit intermediation into a debt mint.
An economic, as well as a monetary, union?
The mammoth European Council meeting agreed a diminished recovery package—yet one with still huge ramifications.
Poles apart—the presidential election in Poland
The presidential election in Poland was an intolerant affair—and the argument isn’t over yet.
Authoritarian threats, democratic responses
The Covid-19 crisis could leave in its wake an even more authoritarian, nationalistic world unless progressive alternatives are articulated.
It’s the political economy, stupid!
The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to shake up the social formation.
Blogs
Apprenticeships: a public option
Apprenticeships raise the labour-market entry level for young people—but they need to be available in bad times as well as good.
Minimum wage: a success story with scope for improvement
Peter Bofinger argues that regionally-differentiated minimum wages should be considered for the post-coronavirus period.
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.
