The nascent paradigm shift in the EU
Emergency action to enhance healthcare and unemployment insurance might signal a paradigm shift for the union from market integration to providing public goods.
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by Albena Azmanova on
Emergency action to enhance healthcare and unemployment insurance might signal a paradigm shift for the union from market integration to providing public goods.

by Luca Ratti on
The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating in-work poverty in the EU—and a powerful raft of labour-market and welfare measures is needed for an adequate response.

Can the European Pillar of Social Rights underpin a social union—or must social rights end at national borders?

by Daniela Kolbe on
Artificial intelligence will drastically transform the economy and the workplace. Which skills will be required and is training the all-encompassing solution?

Artificial intelligence should assist human work, rather than be a rival to it, and ‘good work by design’ should be the guiding principle of its introduction.

The lessons of necessity and solidarity learned during the pandemic must inform a transition to a just society within ecological limits in its aftermath.

by Adam Rogalewski on
With the independence of Poland’s judiciary already compromised, the autonomy of social partnership has become the latest target of the ruling populists.

The coronavirus crisis has punched a hole in Europe’s safety nets. But they were already frayed and urgent repairs are needed.

by Branko Milanovic on
Branko Milanovic explores how the pandemic has highlighted China’s international responsibility and how such global ‘externalities’ are to be rendered accountable.

by Ania Skrzypek on
The future of social democracy has been a perennial debate but the coronavirus crisis has provided a shock: progressive politics will not be the same again.

by Juliane Bir on
AI might seem neutral and technical but it poses a differential challenge to female jobs and can be imbued with insidious gender biases.

by Carol Johnson on
The coronavirus may be indiscriminate but health inequality means that while all humans are vulnerable, some are more vulnerable than others.
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