What Europe can learn from living-wage campaigns
The UK’s Living Wage Campaign is a successful experiment in broad-based social advocacy.
politics, economy and employment & labour
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by John Hurley on
The UK’s Living Wage Campaign is a successful experiment in broad-based social advocacy.

by Stephen Pogány on
Many aspects of normal life have been suspended in Hungary due to the coronavirus, including parliamentary democracy.

by Maria Mexi on
The coronavirus crisis has spurred the growth of online work. The genie is not going back in the bottle and we must plan for a future of ‘decent digiwork’.

by Sheri Berman on
The coronavirus crisis may be a natural disaster but, Sheri Berman writes, how governments are responding is a product of their politics.

by Joan Costa-Font on
A Europe-wide public-health authority should be a priority to counteract collective-action problems among EU member states.

Vulnerable households bore the brunt of the job loss caused by the Great Recession and are ill-prepared to weather the gathering economic storm.

by Jan Zielonka on
The coronavirus crisis has remade the case for public authority—but that can only work in a complex network of multi-level governance.

The coronavirus has not only attacked vulnerable individuals—it has highlighted how Europe’s atrophying social ties leave a growing precariat exposed.

by Shahra Razavi on
Governments must use the momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic to make rapid progress toward collectively financed, comprehensive social-protection systems.

by Vivien Schmidt on
The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.

To prevent the coronavirus shock to demand precipitating a long-lasting depression, government needs to become short-term payer of last resort.

by Petra Bendel on
The EU failed to learn from the crisis of 2015—and is now paying the price. Its refugee policy is even worse than back then.
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