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Piergiuseppe Fortunato


Piergiuseppe Fortunato is an economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, where he leads projects on global value chains and economic integration, and an external professor of political economics at the Université de Neuchâtel.

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Amid anomie and rentier rule, a European left in crisis

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 6th March 2024

The left has gone along with a shift of power to boardrooms and bureaucracies, undermining policy ambition and public confidence.

Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 1st November 2023

We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades

The life and death of Italian centrism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 1st September 2022

Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.

The long shadow of market fundamentalism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 5th May 2022

In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.

‘Social media’, market power and the health of democracy

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 19th October 2021

With the whistle blown on Facebook, Congress must allocate ownership of personal data to the person—not the platform—to allow competitive providers to emerge.

Fighting Covid-19 requires fewer patents and more state

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 20th July 2021

Big Pharma has not been the real innovator in the fight against the pandemic and intellectual property rights must be reshaped to restore fairness.

Inequalities and democratic corrosion

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 4th March 2021

The right question to ask is not if inequality threatens democracy but which inequalities matter.

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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. The background to this is the implementation of the European Minimum Wage Directive, which has led to a reorientation of minimum wage policy in many countries and is thus boosting the dynamics of minimum wages. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50 % of the average wage. However, for Germany, a structural increase is still necessary to make progress towards an adequate minimum wage.

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss European defence strategies, assess how the US president's recent announcements will impact international trade and explore the risks  and opportunities that algorithms pose for workers.


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