Social Europe articles on politics

The European Green Deal is a ray of hope but it faces two huge challenges: it must go global and the finances must be found.

Labour must abandon faith in one more heave for Westminster victory and embrace a progressive alliance, including for electoral reform.

The New Deal was a social contract with the American people. A European Green New Deal must likewise enshrine social alongside ecological aspirations.

There is no real alternative to social dialogue, collective agreements and the voice of workers—even the OECD agrees.

Legal arguments over the EU posting of workers directive raise the issue of which is to prevail: workers’ rights or unregulated markets?

Sepia images of the historical sweep via the fall of the Berlin wall to the reunification of Germany, and so of Europe, look much clearer than today’s turning point.

Amid the intractable struggle in Israel/Palestine for the moral high ground of legitimate victimhood, Europe has a historic responsibility.

Regulating conventional multinationals is difficult enough but taming digital labour platforms raises even more challenges.

Despite rising employment in many western economies, poverty is not declining. What’s wrong with labour-market policies?

Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was ‘Brexit’, partly Corbyn.