The Relative Rise of Europe’s Poor
Europe's poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.
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In difficult times, social cohesion has improved
Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
Strengthening social cohesion amid the polycrisis
Unconventional policies buttressed a decline in inequality and poverty in the EU. Renewed austerity might endanger it.
Europe-wide inequality during the pandemic
The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.
Global inequality and the pandemic: exaggerated hopes and fears?
The pandemic has barely increased global income inequality—but it has made other inequalities worse.
Covid-19 and Europe-wide inequality
Between 2017 and 2019, income disparities in Europe decreased. The pandemic stopped that decline.
EU-wide inequality is back to pre-crisis levels
After almost a decade, EU-wide inequality finally regained its previous low of 2009 due to relatively strong growth in the poorer member states between the Baltic and the Balkans.
Inequality in Europe—wider than it looks
Most discussion of inequality in Europe is confined to individual member states. Aggregating incomes across the EU, however, presents a sobering picture.
Addressing poverty and inequality in Europe
Official EU statistics mask the alarming extent of poverty and inequality in Europe. Despite slight recent easing, its dangerous scale threatens Europe’s social and political cohesion.
Europe-Wide Inequality
Inequality within member states has become a much debated and researched issue over the last decade (see OECD here and here). Reducing the inequality between
Reducing European Inequality: Cohesion Through Convergence
When founded in 1957, the then European Economic Community comprised six relative prosperous countries, albeit including a very poor region, the Italian Mezzogiorno. With the
Inequality in Europe: complex and multidimensional
Talking about inequality in Europe brings one face-to-face with a complex pattern of possible issues and dimensions, which can be measured in different ways. As
Reducing Inequality: Social Europe And Cohesion
‘Social Europe’ implies for most experts the development of national welfare states and their protection against the forces of globalization and international competition as most