Social Europe articles on the economy

Domenico Mario Nuti, who died late last year (aged 83), was a major theoretical and policy figure in economics.

Spreads in a single market with a single currency distort trade flows and competitiveness. The European Central Bank should close them.

Amid much debate about the impact of digitalisation in a globalised world, women have been largely invisible. The EU could change that.

The view that central banks should be ‘market-neutral’ has a flaw: how can central bankers be neutral about wealth inequality and the climate crisis?

Security of supply for medical and pharmaceutical goods must become a high political priority—with industrial policies promoting reshoring.

The German meat industry is being pushed off its low road of migrant-labour exploitation towards regulation and potential collective agreement.

Trade union rights are human rights and must be protected in EU law.

A ruling by a court in Bologna has undermined platforms’ claims to impartial algorithms and autonomous contractors.

The year-end conclusion of the EU-China investment deal was followed by a wave of arrests of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong—not a good look.

Short-time working has saved many livelihoods during the pandemic. But the EU needs to go on to the front foot with a job guarantee programme.

National and EU-level action are needed to make seasonal labour migration in the single market a ‘win-win’ for the member states involved.

Say it quietly, but Germany has learnt the lessons of Keynes. Would that others had done so too.

National governments had been choosing not to exercise enormous powers so those globalisation had enriched could exercise their own.