Social Europe articles on the economy

What kind of Europe will take shape after the coronavirus crisis? Four scenarios, widely varying in their social and ecological consequences, are possible.

The European Investment Bank and national development banks provide a framework through which a European Recovery Fund could work quickly and effectively.

Amid the coronavirus crisis, some are calling for a deferral of European ecological action. Yet unsustainable food systems are one source of new human diseases.

Decades of neoliberal inculcation have deprived the political class of the historical memory needed to derive the new Marshall plan today’s crisis demands.

The postwar German debt experience should inform a spirit of co-operation and goodwill today.

As the eurozone faces into a deep recession, a transparent prisoner’s dilemma is preventing it from stopping the slide.

What the US central bank has been doing to address the coronavirus crisis is precisely what is needed to tackle climate change.

The Eurogroup needed a highest-common-factor agreement to match the coronavirus crisis but intergovernmentalism left it with the lowest common denominator.

Eurobonds are needed to anchor macroeconomic stability and offer a safe path out of the coronavirus storm.

By Einstein’s purported definition, madness would be repeating the errors of the eurozone crisis and expecting a different outcome—eurobonds would break with that.