The false scarcity of vaccine trade tensions
The row over the EU introducing vaccine export controls has occluded its rejection of a temporary waiver on intellectual property rights.
Social Europe articles on society
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A rail renaissance for Europe
The European Year of Rail can support the Green Deal and sustainable recovery. Europe needs more international trains with easier booking.
Big Tech media and the EU’s weak reed of ‘competition’
The attack on the US Capitol revealed the dangers of Big Tech media platforms—but envisaged EU competition laws won’t fix them.
Must try harder: recovering from educational inequality
School closures during the pandemic have hit socially excluded students hard. The EU needs to ensure every child can reach their potential.
Culture, creativity and coronavirus: time for EU action
The pandemic has highlighted a longer-term failure adequately to address the working conditions of cultural professionals in Europe.
Reinforced European Youth Guarantee can be a lifeline
A strengthened European Youth Guarantee allows member states to tackle rising youth unemployment—Eurostat figures show that’s urgent.
Our good health: economic fuel or core value?
Solidarity in health has never been so urgent or imperative—a European Health Union would be its ideal expression.
Designing vaccines for people, not profits
For all the hope spurred by the efficacy announcements of multiple Covid-19 vaccine candidates, national and private interests are trumping health justice.
Not part of Europe anyway?
The language of the Brexit stand-off is of a ‘level playing-field’ versus ‘sovereignty’. But beneath that, it’s about divergent social models.
Care, capitalism and politics
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted how the welfare state of the future must be built on an ethic of care rather than self-interest.
Greater equality: our guide through Covid-19 to sustainable wellbeing
The pandemic has reinforced the case for egalitarianism to define the ethos of the welfare state.
How good journalism can drive out bad
With a Digital Services Act in the offing, regulation of platforms can make public-interest journalism sustainable again.
The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come
The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of social protection, especially in the developing world. A new global fund is needed—and it’s affordable.
The smart city—a social city
For decades urban development has followed the impulses of capital. The right to a home and the right to the city must be won by the citizens.
A new pact for asylum in Europe?
The European Commission is caught between the needs of frontline states receiving refugees and those in the rear resisting responsibility-sharing.
Time to transform transport
Europe has the chance to revolutionise how people and goods move and help cap global warming, while creating jobs and improving health.
