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Jon Bloomfield

Jon Bloomfield is a writer, European policy specialist, environmental practitioner and author of Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham.
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How to puncture the populist right in Europe

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

The far right’s national-populist narrative has gone largely unchallenged—despite its utter incoherence.

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Options for Europe’s ‘geopolitical’ future

Jon Bloomfield

Global challenges have left only one option off the table for the European Union—inertia.

A green growth and innovation paradigm

Jon Bloomfield

Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.

How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape

Jon Bloomfield

After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.

Maximising the potential of the European Green Deal

Jon Bloomfield and Fred Steward

The European Green Deal doesn’t deserve uncritical support—but nor does it need sniping from the sidelines.

The limits of the nationalist left

Jon Bloomfield

The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.

Countering the crisis of the left

Jon Bloomfield

Should social democracy tack towards populists wooing its electorate with xenophobic slogans? The crisis of the left demands instead a positive alternative to social insecurity.

Taking The Initiative: How Europe Should Respond To Brexit

Jon Bloomfield

The week after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Nigel Farage went to the European Parliament and boasted that this was the beginning

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the European Minimum Wage Directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50% of the average wage.

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S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity

Cohesion Policy seeks to foster balanced development and reduce economic, social, and territorial disparities, focusing on rural areas, regions in industrial transition, and those with severe or permanent natural or demographic disadvantages, including outermost, sparsely populated, island, cross-border, and mountain regions.

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