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A paper from the German economy minister on a national industrial policy has gone down like a lead balloon. Peter Bofinger argues it needs to be reflated—and coloured green—at a European level.
There is a clear case for making gender equality a more visible part of the EU budgetary process.
An outgoing green MEP reflects on a decade of working for tax justice in the European Parliament and the challenges for her successors.
What makes the 21st century city the harbinger of a postcapitalist world is that for the first time in modern history the network can transcend the market.
To manage the latest wave of automation, we must have ends that are more compelling than merely wanting more products and services.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a website collating the sources of data on inequality across the European Union and exploring evidence-based policy prescriptions? Now there is.
Soaring income inequality inevitably raises discussion of more progressive taxation. But a more fundamental focus on the ownership of capital is needed.
A close look at how the austerity practised in the UK since 2010 has affected women’s health shows a gender lens must always be applied to see the full picture.
For too long, multinational corporations—and digital firms in particular—have used existing rules to avoid paying taxes in countries where they do much of their business.
Adam Tooze explains how a false exactitude in economics has led to a terrible politics in the EU.
The setback to the immediate plans of those seeking the UK’s exit from the European Union provides a window of opportunity to go on the offensive for an anti-populist, continent-wide alternative.
The idea that ‘the market’ must be the organising principle for collective decision-making should be abandoned.
Can government deficits be financed directly by central banks, as modern monetary theory suggests? The question should not be if but how much.
The European Semester process of macroeconomic country analysis by the European Commission has been driven by economic orthodoxy in support of austerity—when sustainability should be the watchword.
Capitalism emerged in the interstices of feudalism and Paul Mason finds a prefiguring of postcapitalism in the lifeworld of the contemporary European city.
The logic of a Euro-Keynesian recovery, towards socially useful full employment, leads inexorably to a rediscovery of wider European political ambition.
The European Commission looks at mergers only through the narrow, consumer-price lens of its competition policy. The wider public interest is not being served.