Rescue, not renewal: social investment for future wellbeing
Anton Hemerijck and Massimiliano Santini
The welfare state in Europe must become a social-investment state if the broken European social contract is to be renewed.
Can Italy survive its self-inflicted wounds?
Italy’s populist government has been keen to blame Brussels for its fiscal-policy constraint. But its own choice of crowd-pleasing spending over public investment and reform should be scrutinised.
A New Political Narrative For Europe
In August, Bono, lead singer of U2, wrote an editorial on Europe in which he pointed out that it may not be romantic or sexy