The Industrial Accelerator Act Is Too Weak, Not Too Protectionist
Bruegel wants the EU to drop its manufacturing target and trust the market China spent decades engineering.
May 8 Belongs in the Calendar of Every European Democracy
Ellen de Soete and Ludovic Voet
As eyewitnesses fade and the far right reframes liberation as defeat, EU institutions must answer with policy.
The ECB’s Strategic Review: A Betrayal of Europe’s Workers
The European Central Bank’s latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour’s vital role.
Platform work directive—delivering rights for all
Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.
Farmers’ protests: against whom the horn honks?
Kristjan Bragason and Ludovic Voet
The fragility of our food system and lack of social acceptance of EU policies must be addressed in the next mandate.
Trade unions take on platform companies in the struggle for decent work
On World Day of Decent Work, the European Trade Union Confederation puts the spotlight on justice for platform workers.
EU migration and asylum pact abandons compassion and human rights
Faced with escalating deaths in the Mediterranean, official Europe needs to relocate its moral conscience.
Managing the unavoidable impact of climate change
While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy.
Combating Covid-19 and climate change—one fight
The same socially oriented approach must be taken to defeat the coronavirus and, over the longer run, stop climate catastrophe.
A Just Transition Fund: one step on a long march
Continuing our series on a ‘just transition’, Ludovic Voet stresses that allocating European funding is no substitute for a strategy to achieve it.