Through the Fridays for Future protests, young people vent their frustration with political short-sightedness—yet little is being done to tackle intergenerational injustice.
Columns & Interviews
Why EU action on minimum wages is so controversial—yet so necessary
The opening of debate on minimum wages across the EU has precipitated a Nordic union reaction against incursions on collective bargaining.
New firms for a new era
Societies should not allow firms’ owners and their agents to drive the discussion about reforming corporate governance.
Uber, employment and the gig economy
Whatever the company might wish to call it, Uber’s relationship with its workers is one of employment.
Just Transition Fund can boost European coal phase-out
The new Just Transition Fund puts a coal phase-out by 2030 for the whole of Europe within reach.
‘Fridays for Keynesianism’
Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies and Peter Bofinger argues the 2008 crisis must bring the demise of neoclassical economics—which still doesn’t.
Freeports: Johnson should look elsewhere for growth enhancements
Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts.
A just transition must help those struggling to heat their homes
In the latest contribution to our series on ‘just transition’, Monique Goyens argues that it must address the people finding it hard to pay their energy bills.
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Blogs
The minimum wage in Germany five years on
When the minimum wage was introduced in Germany in 2015, there were febrile forecasts of huge job losses. These have proved minimal—while incomes and consumption have benefitted.
Fears and hopes around future minimum wages
The proposal by the European Commission to legislate on fair EU minimum wages has excited contrasting attitudes among trade unions in member states.
Time is ripe for a new ECB strategy
It’s not so much that what the European Central Bank is doing is wrong as that it is not framing public understanding. The next ECB strategy, writes Peter Bofinger, should do so.
The right macroeconomic policies for a Europe saving too much
German hawks are not just wrong about monetary and fiscal policies and risk-sharing in an ailing European economy—their demands are inconsistent.
Why should just transition be an integral part of the European Green Deal?
In our series on ‘just transition’, Béla Galgóczi focuses on what it means for the key sectors of coal and cars.
Where are all the good jobs?
Agglomeration effects in capital-city regions concentrating good jobs may be feeding political discontent beyond them.
Work-life balance: from legal texts to real progress for working people
Taking the EU directive on work-life balance off the page will require determined trade-union efforts, including in challenging prejudices.
