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Social Europe articles on the economy

Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher that publishes content examining issues in politics, economy, society and ecology. This archive brings together Social Europe articles on the economy.

Mario Nuti

Mario Nuti—an appreciation

by Saul Estrin and Milica Uvalic on 10th February 2021

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

Bitcoin,cryptocurrency

Bitcoin lacks a unique selling proposition

by Peter Bofinger on 8th February 2021

Peter Bofinger identifies the cryptocurrency’s Achilles heel.

spreads

It is the ECB’s job to close spreads

by Patrick Kaczmarczyk on 4th February 2021

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

Covid convergence,reduced inequality

The problem with the Covid convergence

by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg on 3rd February 2021

A surprising global trend in the pandemic is reduced inequality across countries—but the convergence reflects losses at the top, not gains at the bottom.

gender justice

The urgency of gender justice in the digital economy

by Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami on 2nd February 2021

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

market-neutral,central banks

Central banks in the socio-ecological transformation

by Gerhard Schick and Michael Peters on 1st February 2021

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?

global supply chain,global production network

Supplying critical goods: lessons from the pandemic

by Jan Grumiller on 27th January 2021

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

An end to wage-dumping in the German meat industry?

by Şerife Erol and Thorsten Schulten on 26th January 2021

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

union-busting,trade union rights

Time to put an end to union-busting

by Esther Lynch on 25th January 2021

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

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

Europe’s ‘long-Covid’ economic frailty

by Adam Tooze on 25th January 2021

Last year’s agreement on an EU recovery package was widely celebrated. This year its inadequacy will sink in.

Deliveroo,couriers

Food-delivery riders, algorithms and autonomy

by Valeria Pulignano and Claudia Marà on 21st January 2021

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

temporary contract,employment contract

Spain: more stable employment contracts

by Ane Aranguiz on 21st January 2021

The Supreme Court has modified its jurisprudence on subcontracting, limiting the scope for abuse of temporary contracts.

Big Tech,AIDA,A Europe fit for the digital age

MEPs need to listen to more voices on artificial intelligence

by Aida Ponce Del Castillo on 11th January 2021

The European Parliament’s committee exploring AI needs to give the floor to civil society. Big Tech has had enough influence.

EU-China investment deal,EU-China trade deal

EU-China investment deal: a ‘values-based’ relationship?

by Vittorio Emanuele Parsi and Valerio Alfonso Bruno on 11th January 2021

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.

job guarantee,employer of last resort

A European job guarantee to foster wellbeing

by Giorgos Argitis and Nasos Koratzanis on 7th January 2021

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.

seasonal migrant workers,seasonal workers,seasonal labour migration

Protecting European migrants’ rights

by Jasmin Abdel Ghany on 5th January 2021

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

Iceland

Germany bows to Keynes, again

by Thorvaldur Gylfason on 5th January 2021

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

national governments,globalisation

The seven secrets of 2020

by Yanis Varoufakis on 4th January 2021

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

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Renewing labour relations in the German meat industry: an end to 'organised irresponsibility'?

Over the course of 2020, repeated outbreaks of Covid-19 in a number of large German meat-processing plants led to renewed public concern about the longstanding labour abuses in this industry. New legislation providing for enhanced inspection on health and safety, together with a ban on contract work and limitations on the use of temporary agency employees, holds out the prospect of a profound change in employment practices and labour relations in the meat industry. Changes in the law are not sufficient, on their own, to ensure decent working conditions, however. There is also a need to re-establish the previously high level of collective-bargaining coverage in the industry, underpinned by an industry-wide collective agreement extended by law to cover the entire sector.


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Social Europe Publishing book

With a pandemic raging, for those countries most affected by Brexit the end of the transition could not come at a worse time. Yet, might the UK's withdrawal be a blessing in disguise? With its biggest veto player gone, might the European Pillar of Social Rights take centre stage? This book brings together leading experts in European politics and policy to examine social citizenship rights across the European continent in the wake of Brexit. Will member states see an enhanced social Europe or a race to the bottom?

'This book correctly emphasises the need to place the future of social rights in Europe front and centre in the post-Brexit debate, to move on from the economistic bias that has obscured our vision of a progressive social Europe.' Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland


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