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Social Europe articles on politics

Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher that publishes content examining issues in politics, economy and employment & labour. This archive brings together Social Europe articles on political issues.

living wage campaign

What Europe can learn from living-wage campaigns

by John Hurley on 2nd April 2020

The UK’s Living Wage Campaign is a successful experiment in broad-based social advocacy.

Hungarian democracy

The coronavirus and the ‘quarantining’ of Hungarian democracy

by Stephen Pogány on 1st April 2020

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

digital labour platforms, cross-border social dialogue

The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era

by Maria Mexi on 1st April 2020

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’.

centre left,representation gap,dissatisfaction with democracy

Democracy, authoritarianism and crises

by Sheri Berman on 30th March 2020

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

health citizenship, public-health authority

Europe’s failure to address Covid-19 shows the need for a European ‘health citizenship’

by Joan Costa-Font on 30th March 2020

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

job loss

Households failed to absorb massive job loss during economic crisis

by Thomas Biegert and Bernhard Ebbinghaus on 26th March 2020

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

nation-state

Has the coronavirus brought back the nation-state?

by Jan Zielonka on 26th March 2020

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

riders,food delivery

The coronavirus, social bonds and the ‘crisis society’

by Valeria Pulignano and Claudia Marà on 25th March 2020

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

social protection

Social protection pays off

by Shahra Razavi on 25th March 2020

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

The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?

by Vivien Schmidt on 23rd March 2020

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

payer of last resort

Keeping business alive: the government will pay

by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman on 18th March 2020

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

refugee policy

Europe’s refugee policy: walking headlong into disaster

by Petra Bendel on 18th March 2020

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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Social Europe Publishing book

The Brexit endgame is upon us: deal or no deal, the transition period will end on January 1st. 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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The macroeconomic effects of the EU recovery and resilience facility

This policy brief analyses the macroeconomic effects of the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). We present the basics of the RRF and then use the macroeconometric multi-country model NiGEM to analyse the facility's macroeconomic effects. The simulations show, first, that if the funds are in fact used to finance additional public investment (as intended), public capital stocks throughout the EU will increase markedly during the time of the RRF. Secondly, in some especially hard-hit southern European countries, the RRF would offset a significant share of the output lost during the pandemic. Thirdly, as gains in GDP due to the RRF will be much stronger in (poorer) southern and eastern European countries, the RRF has the potential to reduce economic divergence. Finally, and in direct consequence of the increased GDP, the RRF will lead to lower public debt ratios—between 2.0 and 4.4 percentage points below baseline for southern European countries in 2023.


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Benchmarking Working Europe 2020

A virus is haunting Europe. This year’s 20th anniversary issue of our flagship publication Benchmarking Working Europe brings to a growing audience of trade unionists, industrial relations specialists and policy-makers a warning: besides SARS-CoV-2, ‘austerity’ is the other nefarious agent from which workers, and Europe as a whole, need to be protected in the months and years ahead. Just as the scientific community appears on the verge of producing one or more effective and affordable vaccines that could generate widespread immunity against SARS-CoV-2, however, policy-makers, at both national and European levels, are now approaching this challenging juncture in a way that departs from the austerity-driven responses deployed a decade ago, in the aftermath of the previous crisis. It is particularly apt for the 20th anniversary issue of Benchmarking, a publication that has allowed the ETUI and the ETUC to contribute to key European debates, to set out our case for a socially responsive and ecologically sustainable road out of the Covid-19 crisis.


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Industrial relations: developments 2015-2019

Eurofound has monitored and analysed developments in industrial relations systems at EU level and in EU member states for over 40 years. This new flagship report provides an overview of developments in industrial relations and social dialogue in the years immediately prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Findings are placed in the context of the key developments in EU policy affecting employment, working conditions and social policy, and linked to the work done by social partners—as well as public authorities—at European and national levels.


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In this moment, more than ever, policy-making requires support and ideas to design further responses that can meet the scale of the problem. FEPS contributes to this reflection with policy ideas, analysis of the different proposals and open reflections with the new FEPS Covid Response Papers series and the FEPS Covid Response Webinars. The latest FEPS Covid Response Paper by the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, 'Recovering from the pandemic: an appraisal of lessons learned', provides an overview of the failures and successes in dealing with Covid-19 and its economic aftermath. Among the authors: Lodewijk Asscher, László Andor, Estrella Durá, Daniela Gabor, Amandine Crespy, Alberto Botta, Francesco Corti, and many more.


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