For 40 years, US Republicans have been insisting that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem’. The bankruptcy of this has been laid bare.
Columns & Interviews
Whose is the European Green Deal?
The challenges of social and environmental injustice are as intense as ever. But which social forces can act as the agents of change?
The economic effects of a pandemic
The human effects of the coronavirus are paramount. But what will be its impact on a medium-sized economy such as that of the UK?
A great equaliser
Branko Milanovic writes that the coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience its daily stigmas.
Making globalisation fair
Enterprises must address—and government more actively demand of them—their observance of human rights.
Advancing gender equality requires a new fiscal pact
Women’s strikes today draw attention to the need for global tax reform, so that investment in services can ease the burden of women’s domestic labour.
‘A worker is a worker’: the trade unions organising migrants across Europe
Migrant workers are by nature more diverse than the indigenous workers among whom they find themselves. Organising strategies need to be diverse too.
Cohesion and progressivity: the Multiannual Financial Framework and Just Transition
The European Council failed to agree last week on a new budget. The optimum MFF cannot emerge from zero-sum bargaining.
Social Europe Videos
Subscribe to our channel1
/
17
Friederike Otto: How is Climate Change affecting our Weather?
David Webber: The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder
1
/
17
Blogs
The minimum wage in Germany five years on
When the minimum wage was introduced in Germany in 2015, there were febrile forecasts of huge job losses. These have proved minimal—while incomes and consumption have benefitted.
Fears and hopes around future minimum wages
The proposal by the European Commission to legislate on fair EU minimum wages has excited contrasting attitudes among trade unions in member states.
Time is ripe for a new ECB strategy
It’s not so much that what the European Central Bank is doing is wrong as that it is not framing public understanding. The next ECB strategy, writes Peter Bofinger, should do so.
The right macroeconomic policies for a Europe saving too much
German hawks are not just wrong about monetary and fiscal policies and risk-sharing in an ailing European economy—their demands are inconsistent.
Why should just transition be an integral part of the European Green Deal?
In our series on ‘just transition’, Béla Galgóczi focuses on what it means for the key sectors of coal and cars.
Where are all the good jobs?
Agglomeration effects in capital-city regions concentrating good jobs may be feeding political discontent beyond them.
Work-life balance: from legal texts to real progress for working people
Taking the EU directive on work-life balance off the page will require determined trade-union efforts, including in challenging prejudices.
