Category: Economy - Page 16

How to reform the European fiscal rules

The fiscal rules have been in abeyance with the pandemic. What will replace them is up for grabs.

Are statutory minimum wages or collective-bargaining coverage the answer to low pay? Both, actually.

Unions have the capacities to mobilise and represent platform workers and connected workforces in non-standard work forms.

A crisis of wellbeing is invisibly surging in the digital economy. As with the coronavirus, Europe needs to get a grip on it.

European Union institutions at long last finalise a directive to put more women on company boards.

Monetary tightening only risks recession, whereas fiscal measures can set Europe on a sustainable recovery path.

Workers facing asbestos exposure need much more protection—through tighter limits and proper equipment and protocols.

Peter Bofinger questions last week’s award of a prestigious economics prize to an orthodox school which could not anticipate the 2008 crash.

With inflation driven largely by corporate rent-seeking, rather than suppressing wage claims windfall profits must be taxed.

Making public contracts for private firms conditional on collective agreements can help stem the falling labour share.

To win power, progressive leaders must articulate a coherent economic policy, focusing not only on redistribution but also value creation.

Divergences between the European Commission and the European Parliament reveal the real challenges of regulating the platform economy.

The European Union must stop compromising on the fundamental right of workers to health and safety.

Simply banning products made with forced labour won’t help the workers affected.

Thousands of workers join a union rally in Brussels to defend their purchasing power.

The UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared.