The ECB’s Strategic Review: A Betrayal of Europe’s Workers
The European Central Bank’s latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour’s vital role.
Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher driven by the core values of freedom, sustainability, and equality. These principles guide our exploration of society’s most pressing challenges. This archive page curates Social Europe articles focused on economic issues, offering a rich resource for innovative thinking and informed debate.
The European Central Bank’s latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour’s vital role.
The fall of Biden’s green subsidies reveals ideology, not economics, as the true force in US politics.
Mario Draghi’s vision for Europe demands more than investment—it calls for digital sovereignty, state capacity, and strategic power.
President Christine Lagarde’s recent proposal signals a pivotal shift, aiming to elevate the euro’s international standing and bolster European foreign policy independence.
Trump’s radical tax vision could dismantle the IRS, reshape global inequality—and fuel a new economic war.
Amid vast investment shortfalls, the European Union must rethink its funding strategy to achieve its ambitious goals.
Christine Lagarde seeks a greater international role for the euro, but Europe’s economic realities present a complex challenge.
As the continent’s birth rates decline and its population ages, policymakers face the urgent task of retaining experienced workers and adapting workplaces.
American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.
Minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe continue to rise.
Markets, innovation, and AI are overpowering Trump’s chaos—and pushing America toward 4% growth, recession or not.
Trump’s return highlights why Europe must build its own AI ecosystem—secure, competitive, and true to its values.
Despite EU moves, Italy resists a national minimum wage amid trade union scepticism.
Trump is turning America into a tax haven, dismantling safeguards and fueling inequality through global deregulation.
New research reveals that automation benefits are not universal.
Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, and economic growth.
Trump’s “America First” policies upend global order, igniting calls to tax oligarchs and disrupt international trade.
Mainstream economics has shaped modern policymaking, but its failures and ideological divides reveal deeper systemic flaws.
As Donald Trump dismantles free trade, Canada and Mexico face an urgent choice: endure or pivot.
Amid political chaos, smart executives keep their eyes on real growth—green tech, innovation, and long-term resilience.
A critique of mainstream economics’ failures and its resistance to change.