Aurore Fransolet, Éloi Laurent, Philippe Pochet and Pascale Vielle
The EU’s next budget threatens to slash climate transition funds for military spending. But Europe’s gravest security threats already strike inside our borders — killing 62,000 citizens last year alone.
Far from the European Green Deal being exhausted, it needs renewing with social ambition.
Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.
The renewed polarisation between Macron and Le Pen in the presidential election conceals a pas de deux.
The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to update the European welfare state to a social-ecological state, able to socialise 21st-century ecological risks.
Éloi Laurent opens a Social Europe series on the ‘just transition’ by framing it in the context of the social-ecological state.
A genuine European Green New Deal must place social justice and ecological protection ahead of fiscal discipline and economic growth.
The concept of the social-ecological state can inspire a new social policy to tackle the twin crises of inequality and environment.
Reports of the death of growth have been greatly exaggerated. As the IMF noted last month, the world enjoyed in 2017 the “broadest cyclical upswing