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Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Piergiuseppe Fortunato is a senior 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.

Nobody Will Pull The Trigger When Humanity Loses Control Of AI

Nobody Will Pull The Trigger When Humanity Loses Control Of AI

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Around 1,200 OpenAI agents built themselves a messaging system, and every step towards it was individually rational.

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Democracy, Control, or Competitiveness: The AI Trilemma

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.

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Big Tech and Populism Share a Common Enemy: Democratic Oversight

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

As artificial intelligence concentrates power among a handful of technology giants, the structural interests of those firms and of populist politics are quietly converging around a shared hostility to institutional constraints.

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Amid anomie and rentier rule, a European left in crisis

Richard Kozul-Wright and Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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The life and death of Italian centrism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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The long shadow of market fundamentalism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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.

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Fighting Covid-19 requires fewer patents and more state

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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Inequalities and democratic corrosion

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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

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S&D conference The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision, 9 September 2026, European Parliament, Brussels

S&D conference “The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision”

In case you missed it, you can watch the replay of the S&D Group’s conference “The Middle East at crossroads: A progressive vision” by clicking the button below, and read the press release and opinion piece.

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Cover of the ETUI report Climate change and workers’ health: protecting workers against heat and other climate-related hazards, by Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni and Andreas D. Flouris.

New Report - Climate change and workers’ health

After a summer marked by repeated heatwaves across Europe, this publication tackles an increasingly urgent issue: workplace heat exposure, now one of the leading climate-related threats to workers' health. The report identifies the sectors and workers most at risk, and calls for a dedicated EU directive to strengthen and harmonise their protection.

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EurofoundTalks podcast with Mary McCaughey and Eszter Sandor: Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

Is financial resilience and trust in Europe faltering?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.

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Cover of The Progressive Post issue 31, Summer 2026: The Mediterranean, a crowded sea.

The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out! 

The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

The new issue of the magazine also reflects on how we struggle to keep pace with AI innovations, examines the uncertainties surrounding the execution of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the risk to human rights posed by the Return Regulation, and focuses on the EU Commission's newly proposed Industrial Accelerator Act.

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WSI blog series “Climate Transition: Socially Just and Fair”: How the climate crisis and global migration are linked, by Neva Löw and Maximilian Pichl

How the climate crisis and global migration are linked

The climate crisis and global migration are closely linked. Emancipatory forces must demand and defend the right to be able to leave, but not to have to leave. This means defending and expanding asylum rights.

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Cover of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung analysis The Capability State: A Progressive Vision for the 21st Century by Henning Meyer.

“What is the actual purpose of the state?” – this central question is the focus of the analysis. At a time when bureaucratic processes are making life difficult for citizens, the paper proposes a three-part model. It aims at a conception of the state as a platform that helps society build the capabilities it needs to address its problems effectively.

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