Europe Needs Industrial Policy That Puts Workers First in an Age of Uncertainty
Bold industrial strategy must combine green transformation with social justice to secure Europe's economic future.
Susanne Wixforth
Price and profit curbs—or how really to fight inflation
A crude, one-club monetary policy has already caused bank collapses. More damage will follow more interest-rate hikes.
Reviving democracy in a fragmented Europe
Addressing economic inequality is key to restoring political participation and democratic legitimacy.
Social-ecological public procurement
The vast sums disbursed in procurement and subsidies by public institutions must lever good work amid the green transition.
Inflation: free markets or freeriding?
Companies with market power are increasing prices beyond rising energy costs—because they can.
‘Greedflation’: who wins, who loses?
With inflation driven largely by corporate rent-seeking, rather than suppressing wage claims windfall profits must be taxed.
Towards social sustainability: a social taxonomy
A ‘social taxonomy’ should be developed as a counterpart to the green investment taxonomy, with comprehensive employee involvement.
Transnational labour and social rights
A European layer of social insurance is increasingly necessary.
Fair pay for truck drivers
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
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