Europe Needs Industrial Policy That Puts Workers First in an Age of Uncertainty
Susanne Wixforth and Michael Soder
Bold industrial strategy must combine green transformation with social justice to secure Europe’s economic future.
Reviving democracy in a fragmented Europe
Susanne Wixforth and Kaoutar Haddouti
Addressing economic inequality is key to restoring political participation and democratic legitimacy.
Social-ecological public procurement
Susanne Wixforth and Christian Berger
The vast sums disbursed in procurement and subsidies by public institutions must lever good work amid the green transition.
Inflation: free markets or freeriding?
Susanne Wixforth and Kaoutar Haddouti
Companies with market power are increasing prices beyond rising energy costs—because they can.
‘Greedflation’: who wins, who loses?
Susanne Wixforth and Kaoutar Haddouti
With inflation driven largely by corporate rent-seeking, rather than suppressing wage claims windfall profits must be taxed.
Towards social sustainability: a social taxonomy
Judith Vorbach and Susanne Wixforth
A ‘social taxonomy’ should be developed as a counterpart to the green investment taxonomy, with comprehensive employee involvement.
Transnational labour and social rights
Susanne Schmidt and Susanne Wixforth
A European layer of social insurance is increasingly necessary.
Fair pay for truck drivers
Martin Stuber and Susanne Wixforth
The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to hold out a prospect of a single market that works for its mobile workers.
A chance for a social future
Susanne Wixforth and Lukas Wiehler
Can the Conference on the Future of Europe be a turning point from a mere economic union to one of social rights?
How can the EU achieve a fair distribution of the tax burden?
Falling corporate taxation has been matched by a rising contribution from labour. But there are ways to redress the balance between citizens and companies.
Material concerns about posting of workers
Legal arguments over the EU posting of workers directive raise the issue of which is to prevail: workers’ rights or unregulated markets?
Welcome to GAFA land—where the winner takes it all
The Big Tech platforms have established monopolies which disempower their competitors as well as their workers. EU competition law can be used by unions seeking to bring them to heel.
The Celtic Tiger leaves Irish workers scarred
Workers in Ireland are still bearing the brunt after the Celtic Tiger’s demise—but with a modest gain against the precarisation of work.
The European Hydra: Wages And Social Dumping – Competition Law As A Way Out
Fighting against transnational social dumping can best be compared to Heracles’ struggle against the Hydra of Lerna – the multi-headed serpent in Greek mythology. This
The New EU Budget Under The Constraints Of Brexit And The Debt Brake
The UK’s exit from the EU means a contributions gap of an estimated €10-14 billion per year, around 7 percent of the EU Budget. Thereby,
The Future Of Europe – A Space For The Social Policy Avant-Garde
On March 1 2017, the European Commission set out a White Paper on the Future of Europe. There was none of the fierce debate that