AFL-CIO/Microsoft AI partnership: model to follow?
Workers must have a collective voice in the design of artificial-intelligence systems for the workplace.
Economy
Normalising the far right: a warning from Austria
Facing the threat from right-wing populism at June’s Euro-elections, Austria offers lessons for progressives.
Yesterday, today and the shadow of fascism
Why has the far right returned, after Holocaust and war? Chaos unnerves the vulnerable, sugaring fascism’s hollow promises.
A warning to Scrooges: cut long working hours
A right to disconect, collective bargaining and public procurement are the levers to reduce excessive working hours.
Competition policy: turn to the labour market
Weak competition on labour markets means wages are often set below the market-clearing level.
Maritime needs stronger wind to cut its emissions
The European Commission’s plan to extend the Emissions Trading Scheme to the sector falls short in driving decarbonisation.
2024: a year that will decide the future
The European Green Deal faces a fork in the road—between the politics of hope and the politics of fear—as the June elections loom.
Sharp energy-price shock met fuzzy responses
National measures adopted amid the energy crisis missed the opportunity to pursue social and climate goals.
Learning mobility: making it the norm in the EU
Even if ambitious 2030 targets were attained, Sofia Fernandes writes, learning mobility would still be a minority privilege.
‘Building back better’ needs green construction
Pursuing energy efficiency will generate more construction jobs—but that requires tackling labour shortages and skills mismatches.
Time for a job guarantee in Europe?
A job guarantee could end long spells of joblessness for millions in the EU and send a pre-election signal that a ‘social Europe’ is possible.
EU fiscal rules: time to face the contradictions
The new version of the pre-pandemic fiscal rules, if imposed, would jeopardise the European economy.
The shadow of austerity—and authoritarianism
European trade unions are mobilising today in Brussels against the austerity which would follow reimplanted fiscal rules.
Just a matter of time? The ‘right to disconnect’
Achieving the right to disconnect is becoming a test case of the European Union’s commitment to social dialogue.
EU-US relations: key to geopolitical stability
The transatlantic partnership must be strengthened to combat a range of multifaceted global challenges.
The AI Act: deregulation in disguise
The loopholes in the AI Act emerging from trilogue negotiations late on Friday could allow big corporations to slip through.
The idea of a liberal socialism
Liberalism and socialism have been wrongly counterposed. Connected, they represent a hegemonic alternative.