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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.

Hamilton

The politics of a just transition: avoiding fallacious arguments

by John Weeks on 4th February 2020

John Weeks argues in our ‘just transition’ series that its success is linked to a political message of hope.

homeless people

Access to social assistance and rights for homeless people

by Chiara Crepaldi on 3rd February 2020

Homeless people tend to have individualised, complex needs. But their first requirement is simple—a home.

wealth tax

Isn’t a wealth tax common sense?

by J Bradford DeLong on 3rd February 2020

The wealth tax proposals advanced by Democratic US presidential primary contenders have drawn vehement criticism from many who should be supporting them.

job polarisation

The myth of job polarisation may fuel populism

by German Bender on 30th January 2020

There is only one problem with the theory that the labour market is becoming polarised between the low- and high-skilled. It’s wrong.

minimum wages

Fears and hopes around future minimum wages

by Christine Aumayr-Pintar on 30th January 2020

The proposal by the European Commission to legislate on fair EU minimum wages has excited contrasting attitudes among trade unions in member states.

eu regulation,one in one out

Instilling due diligence in corporate behaviour

by Isabelle Schömann on 28th January 2020

Europe must act on its global responsibility to protect human and workers’ rights.

globalisation of labour,deglobalisation

Russia’s path toward a better political capitalism

by Branko Milanovic on 27th January 2020

Branko Milanovic explains the possible thinking behind Vladimir Putin’s recent clouded constitutional announcements.

World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum: towards sustainability with neoliberal recipes?

by Gerhard Bosch on 27th January 2020

The World Economic Forum has recognised intellectually that Scandinavian social models offer an alternative to rising inequality. It just can’t accept this ideologically.

right-wing populism

Class struggle à la droite

by Claus Leggewie on 23rd January 2020

Populism is boosted by economic crises, but its roots are cultural.

just transition media

Telling a different story: the media and ‘just transition’

by Natalie Bennett on 23rd January 2020

Continuing our series on ‘just transition’, Natalie Bennett argues that the media have an ethical responsibility to foster public understanding.

just transition lessons

Just transition: replacing fear with hope

by Samantha Smith on 21st January 2020

Just transition works and there are already many lessons learned. The most important is that workers must see a positive pathway ahead.

eurozone recovery, recovery package, Financial Stability Review, BEAST

The fierce urgency of COP26

by Adam Tooze on 20th January 2020

Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership.

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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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Read FEPS Covid Response Papers

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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