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Werner Raza


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

Werner Raza

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, Michael Ertl and Michael Soder 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, Bernhard Tröster, Verena Madner, Birgit Hollaus and Stefan Mayr 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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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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Cohesion Policy

S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity

Cohesion Policy aims to promote harmonious development and reduce economic, social and territorial disparities between the regions of the Union, and the backwardness of the least favoured regions with a particular focus on rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition and regions suffering from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as outermost regions, regions with very low population density, islands, cross-border and mountain regions.

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The evolution of working conditions in Europe

This episode of Eurofound Talks examines the evolving landscape of European working conditions, situated at the nexus of profound technological transformation.

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Spring Issues

The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out!


It is time to take action and to forge a path towards a Socialist renewal.


European Socialists struggle to balance their responsibilities with the need to take bold positions and actions in the face of many major crises, while far-right political parties are increasingly gaining ground. Against this background, we offer European progressive forces food for thought on projecting themselves into the future.


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss the transformative power of European Social Democracy, examine the far right’s efforts to redesign education systems to serve its own political agenda and highlight the growing threat of anti-gender movements to LGBTIQ+ rights – among other pressing topics.

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