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Werner Raza


Werner Raza is director of the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) in Vienna.

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Industrial Policy for the Twin Transformation – A Progressive Agenda is Needed Now!

Werner Raza 4th April 2025

The EU’s twin transformation requires a careful balance between climate action, digitalisation, and social fairness.

Draghi on ‘competitiveness’: new wine in an old bottle

Werner Raza 27th September 2024

The Draghi report contains some useful proposals but fails to match up to the challenges the European Union is facing.

On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time

Werner Raza 9th October 2023

In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.

Trade policy: a call for solidarity

Werner Raza 7th September 2023

The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.

Winning in Ukraine, losing the global south?

Werner Raza 30th March 2023

The west’s focus on the war in Ukraine risks a geopolitically counterproductive neglect of the urgent problems of the global south.

Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed

Werner Raza 14th December 2022

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.

Global Inequality, Populism And The Future Of Democracy

Werner Raza 21st February 2017

The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency as well as the seemingly inexorable ascendency of right-wing populism in Europe has raised troubling questions about the future of democracy. In his new book, Branko Milanovic (BM) discusses the relationship between global inequality and the future of capitalism and democracy, respectively (a related interview has […]

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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? .


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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

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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