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## Posts

- [Trump’s Latest Gift to Putin](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-latest-gift-to-putin): Ukrainians risk their lives to refuel as Washington blames them for fuel costs driven by Trump’s war.
- [After the AI Bubble Bursts](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-ai-bubble-bursts): Lenders slice data-centre loans into tranches and sell them on, yet nobody knows who holds them.
- [Measuring the Right Things Reveals a Stronger Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/measuring-the-right-things-reveals-a-stronger-europe): The EU’s wellbeing index rose 9.5 points between 2010 and 2023, against 1.2 for the United States.
- [The EU Needs Dedicated Capacity to Track AI’s Impact on Jobs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-needs-dedicated-capacity-to-track-ais-impact-on-jobs): A Brussels workshop ranked the signals Europe must track, from junior vacancies to the labour share of GDP.
- [France’s Student Revolt Exposes a State That Cannot Provide but Can Police](https://www.socialeurope.eu/frances-student-revolt-exposes-a-state-that-cannot-provide-but-can-police): Over 5,000 arrests in three weeks reveal a republic quicker to discipline teenagers than to teach them.
- [Europe Must Turn Its Green Transition Into Green Power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-turn-its-green-transition-into-green-power): Europe imported 57 per cent of its energy in 2024, and Hormuz has just sent the bill.
- [Voters Want AI Regulated for Jobs, Not Just Safety](https://www.socialeurope.eu/voters-want-ai-regulated-for-jobs-not-just-safety): From Italy to Britain, six in ten citizens or more want an independent authority to police AI.
- [Workers Are Not Europe’s Cost Problem](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workers-are-not-europes-cost-problem): Profits have grown almost twice as fast as pay since 2000, yet workers are told to work longer.
- [Europe’s Restraint Makes Trump’s Tariffs Pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-restraint-makes-trumps-tariffs-pay): Tariff revenue is bankrolling American tax cuts, and Europe is quietly footing the bill.
- [AI Now Scores Every Call, and Workers Cannot See the Rules](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-now-scores-every-call-and-workers-cannot-see-the-rules): Union reps say AI sentiment scores can swing variable pay by up to 40 per cent.
- [Narrow Metrics Teach AI Agents to Cheat, Hack, and Flatter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/narrow-metrics-teach-ai-agents-to-cheat-hack-and-flatter): OpenAI’s agents breached Hugging Face because peers were doing it, a flaw rooted in how labs train models.
- [Who benefits from AI depends on how it is governed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-benefits-from-ai-depends-on-how-it-is-governed): Technological breakthroughs do not automatically deliver shared prosperity. As AI transforms our economies and societies, the institutions we build today will help determine whether its gains are widely shared.
- [Europe Already Has a Weapon to Shield the ICC From Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-already-has-a-weapon-to-shield-the-icc-from-trump): Washington has sanctioned nine of the court’s 18 judges and now threatens the institution itself, yet Brussels hesitates.
- [Platform Work in Italy Has Become a Trap for the Vulnerable](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platform-work-in-italy-has-become-a-trap-for-the-vulnerable): The most precarious group grew from two to 54 per cent of Italy’s platform workforce in three years.
- [Climate Plans Need Workers, Not Just Disclosure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-plans-need-workers-not-just-disclosure): Twelve thousand Duisburg steelworkers marched for green steel: employee voice can accelerate transition rather than block it.
- [Europe’s AI Divide Is Already an Enlargement Problem](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-ai-divide-is-already-an-enlargement-problem): Nearly 96 per cent of Montenegro’s businesses are micro enterprises, and Europe’s AI evidence base barely sees them.
- [Austria’s Headscarf Ban Shows What Happens When Law Replaces Integration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austrias-headscarf-ban-shows-what-happens-when-law-replaces-integration): Four parties backed a ban on headscarves for girls under 14, and a child pays the price.
- [Mirafiori’s Restart Exposes the Blind Spot in Europe’s Industrial Policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mirafioris-restart-exposes-the-blind-spot-in-europes-industrial-policy): Five years among the men at Turin’s factory wall reveal what 44 million furlough hours conceal.
- [Iceland Needs the EU as a Political Project, Not a Market](https://www.socialeurope.eu/iceland-needs-the-eu-as-a-political-project-not-a-market): Trump’s new map swallows Iceland, yet Icelanders have just voted against reopening membership talks with Brussels.
- [Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Towards a New Pro-Worker Trade Policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-free-trade-and-protectionism-towards-a-new-pro-worker-trade-policy): Four changes – from enforceable labour rights to seats in the boardroom – would restore democratic legitimacy to open economies.
- [Europe Cannot Defend Its Values by Teaching Them](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-cannot-defend-its-values-by-teaching-them): Hizb ut-Tahrir’s founder called Western values purely utilitarian; Europe’s institutions are struggling to prove him wrong.
- [EU Trade Deals Must Uphold The Due Diligence Rules Europe Passed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-trade-deals-must-uphold-the-due-diligence-rules-europe-passed): Only four EU trade agreements since 2022 allow any sanction for breaking labour and climate commitments.
- [Nobody Will Pull The Trigger When Humanity Loses Control Of AI](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nobody-will-pull-the-trigger-when-humanity-loses-control-of-ai): Around 1,200 OpenAI agents built themselves a messaging system, and every step towards it was individually rational.
- [Nativism Does Not Need Migrants — Or A Fixed Nation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nativism-does-not-need-migrants-or-a-fixed-nation): In El Ejido a third of residents are foreign, and Vox still more than doubled its regional score.
- [The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-hugging-face-incident-and-the-future-of-work): The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.
- [Public Money Must Come With Public Obligations for Europe’s Industry](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-money-must-come-with-public-obligations-for-europes-industry): Steel and chemical plants cannot wait 10 years for cheap power, and the Industrial Accelerator Act needs teeth.
- [Europe’s Circular Economy Act Will Fail Without Workers at Its Heart](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-circular-economy-act-will-fail-without-workers-at-its-heart): Two union leaders warn that waste, repair and recycling jobs risk becoming Europe’s next low-pay, high-hazard market.
- [Europe’s €2 Trillion Budget Buys Less Investment, Not More](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-e2-trillion-budget-buys-less-investment-not-more): Once NextGenerationEU expires, the EU’s real fiscal capacity falls, leaving a €300 billion annual investment gap.
- [People Want Economic Change but Have Stopped Trusting Governments to Deliver It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/people-want-economic-change-but-have-stopped-trusting-governments-to-deliver-it): While two-thirds say that democracy is the best way to govern, four in ten say a strong leader would serve their country better.
- [Fair Labour Mobility Must Mean Fair for Workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fair-labour-mobility-must-mean-fair-for-workers): Some 950,000 Europeans move to another member state each year, and many land in jobs beneath their qualifications.
- [Services Now Outpace Manufacturing as the Engine of Development](https://www.socialeurope.eu/services-now-outpace-manufacturing-as-the-engine-of-development): In India, a worker who leaves the factory floor for services now adds more to national income.
- [Orbán’s Propaganda Machine Lost Because Fidesz Believed Its Own Story](https://www.socialeurope.eu/orbans-propaganda-machine-lost-because-fidesz-believed-its-own-story): Fear of war among Hungarians fell from 46 to 29 per cent as Peter Magyar reframed the election.
- [Europe’s AI Revolution Runs on Public Infrastructure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-ai-revolution-runs-on-public-infrastructure): One planned German data centre will draw as much electricity as 600,000 households and employ around 120 people.
- [Europeans Are More Pragmatic About AI Than Their Prophets](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europeans-are-more-pragmatic-about-ai-than-their-prophets): Half of Americans say AI already harms society, against just 35 per cent across continental Europe.
- [California Rewrites the Welfare State While Europe Looks Away](https://www.socialeurope.eu/california-rewrites-the-welfare-state-while-europe-looks-away): Trump and Sanders now converge on sovereign funds holding corporate shares, scrambling familiar ideological lines.
- [Tesla Outlasted the World’s Strongest Union Movement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tesla-outlasted-the-worlds-strongest-union-movement): After 1,027 days, severance deals with confidentiality clauses emptied the picket line at Sweden’s Tesla workshops.
- [Europe Promised to Protect Its Nurses From Hazardous Drugs and Has Not Delivered](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-promised-to-protect-its-nurses-from-hazardous-drugs-and-has-not-delivered): Only two per cent of surveyed nurses have been tested for the hazardous drugs they handle at work.
- [Fascism Does Not Begin With Murder but With the Pleasure of Imagining It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fascism-does-not-begin-with-murder-but-with-the-pleasure-of-imagining-it): Leo Löwenthal warned that far-right agitation turns psychoanalysis on its head, making followers paranoid rather than healing them.
- [Europe Needs a Plan for Russia After Putin](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-a-plan-for-russia-after-putin): With 450,000 Russian dead and negotiation impossible, Europe’s only real leverage is patience backed by power.
- [Von der Leyen’s State of the Union Must Speak to Workers, Not CEOs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/von-der-leyens-state-of-the-union-must-speak-to-workers-not-ceos): Europe spends €2 trillion a year on public contracts, most awarded to the lowest bidder, fuelling precarious work.
- [Isaiah Berlin’s Negative Liberty Now Fetters Progressive Politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berlins-negative-liberty-now-fetters-progressive-politics): Two decades of bold reform followed the 1970s crisis; since 2008, next to none. Blame an idea.
- [America’s Fiscal Crisis Is Europe’s Chance to Build a Treasury Market of Its Own](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-fiscal-crisis-is-europes-chance-to-build-a-treasury-market-of-its-own): The EU should seize the moment to gain strategic autonomy by creating its own safe asset.
- [The Sound of Children Playing Is Not Industrial Noise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-sound-of-children-playing-is-not-industrial-noise): A 192-year-old Bairro Alto nursery registers just over 40 decibels by day; the surrounding bars hit 70 at night.
- [Ceuta Is Europe’s Berlin Wall Moment — Run in Reverse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ceuta-is-europes-berlin-wall-moment-run-in-reverse): Like Berlin in 1989, Ceuta was an accident of history — but Europe’s response may entrench its walls.
- [Europe’s Cities Were Designed For A Climate That No Longer Exists](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-cities-were-designed-for-a-climate-that-no-longer-exists): At least 10,000 Europeans died in a single week of June — and the response starts with street design.
- [Simpler AI Rules Must Not Mean Weaker Safety for Europe’s Workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/simpler-ai-rules-must-not-mean-weaker-safety-for-europes-workers): The Digital Omnibus strips machinery from the AI Act’s high-risk regime, leaving worker safeguards in limbo.
- [Burnham’s Break with Thatcherism Matters for All Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/burnhams-break-with-thatcherism-matters-for-all-europe): Britain’s new Prime Minister blames four decades of neoliberalism for national malaise — and continental progressives should pay attention.
- [Social Democrats Cannot Sit Out the Culture War Any Longer](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democrats-cannot-sit-out-the-culture-war-any-longer): As the far right reshapes democracy, progressives from Berlin to Washington must decide whether cultural struggle beats technocratic caution.
- [Europe’s Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU’s Budget](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-ultra-rich-could-fund-a-substantial-part-of-the-eus-budget): Taxes on wealth, crypto and financial trades could raise billions no single member state can collect alone.
- [The Case Against Trading Europe’s Welfare State for Warfare](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-case-against-trading-europes-welfare-state-for-warfare): A decade of evidence shows Europe’s welfare state drives growth – making calls to cut it for rearmament self-defeating.
- [How I Became a Manufacturing Skeptic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-i-became-a-manufacturing-skeptic): The industrialization-led growth model is faltering. Developing economies’ best hope now lies in raising productivity across labour-absorbing services.
- [Europe’s Drug War Punishes the Poor and Spares the Powerful](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-drug-war-punishes-the-poor-and-spares-the-powerful): As welfare provision retreats, European states police the marginalised while laundering networks and corporate enablers escape scrutiny.
- [Péter Magyar Defeated Orbán on Nationalist Ground](https://www.socialeurope.eu/peter-magyar-defeated-orban-on-nationalist-ground): In Budapest, Magyar took back the flag — and showed Europe how to beat the far right.
- [The Industrial Accelerator Act Is Too Weak, Not Too Protectionist](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-industrial-accelerator-act-is-too-weak-not-too-protectionist): Bruegel wants the EU to drop its manufacturing target and trust the market China spent decades engineering.
- [Germany’s Seventh Year of Stagnation Exposes a Missing Strategy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-seventh-year-of-stagnation-exposes-a-missing-strategy): Berlin’s new growth package and pension overhaul dodge the real problem: the collapse of corporate investment and innovation.
- [The Climate Consensus of 2019 Is Gone — Europe Needs a New One](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-climate-consensus-of-2019-is-gone-europe-needs-a-new-one): The Commission’s upcoming proposals on carbon markets and electrification will signal whether Europe still means to decarbonise.
- [FIFA Has Made World Cup Tickets a Financial Instrument](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fifa-has-made-world-cup-tickets-a-financial-instrument): Ghost tickets, surge pricing, and resale fees reveal how football’s biggest event now profits from its own fans.
- [Switzerland Votes Down a Xenophobic Initiative — Thanks to the Unions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/switzerland-votes-down-a-xenophobic-initiative-thanks-to-the-unions): A decades-long union campaign on wage protection helped Swiss voters bury the SVP’s population cap and keep the EU door open.
- [Open Letter to Manfred Weber](https://www.socialeurope.eu/open-letter-to-manfred-weber): Weber bears responsibility for the Return Regulation vote of 17 June, which allows up to 24 months’ detention for seeking a better life.
- [Europe’s Circular Economy Must Be Built for Workers, Not Just Resources](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-circular-economy-must-be-built-for-workers-not-just-resources): Brussels wants to double recycling by 2030, but efficiency targets alone cannot build a fairer, more resilient economy.
- [Incentives Beat Threats: Europe’s Quiet Reform Breakthrough](https://www.socialeurope.eu/incentives-beat-threats-europes-quiet-reform-breakthrough): NextGenerationEU exposed an awkward truth: governments reform faster when Brussels offers cash than when it threatens punishment.
- [Hyperglobalization 2.0: Why AI Has Not Slowed the World Down](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hyperglobalization-2-0-why-ai-has-not-slowed-the-world-down): Trade wars suggest deglobalisation, but the AI race is wiring the world together at unprecedented speed.
- [Europe’s Largest Companies Now Lend More Than They Invest](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-largest-companies-now-lend-more-than-they-invest): Europe drowns in cheap capital yet starves for investment — because its biggest firms now lend rather than build.
- [Why Solar Grids, Not American LNG, Should Power Europe Next](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-solar-grids-not-american-lng-should-power-europe-next): A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.
- [EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-inc-is-a-deregulation-tool-in-disguise): The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.
- [Democracy, Control, or Competitiveness: The AI Trilemma](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-control-or-competitiveness-the-ai-trilemma): A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.
- [A Solidarity Tax on Billionaires Could Raise €800 Billion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-solidarity-tax-on-billionaires-could-raise-e800-billion): A referendum on a 1945-style solidarity tax on fortunes above €100 million would give France’s left the clarity it lacks.
- [Orbán Is Gone, but His State Machine Remains](https://www.socialeurope.eu/orban-is-gone-but-his-state-machine-remains): After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules.
- [Europe’s Industrial Tsunami Demands a Quality Jobs Act](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-industrial-tsunami-demands-a-quality-jobs-act): Europe’s industrial transition risks becoming a social tsunami; only binding labour guarantees, not soft coordination, can prevent it.
- [AI’s Real Danger Is What It Does Well](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ais-real-danger-is-what-it-does-well): The help and the harm are a single event, and at the level of institutions, AI is already draining the judgement on which good government depends.
- [The Pope Should Have Gone Further on AI](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-pope-should-have-gone-further-on-ai): Pope Leo XIV calls AI a threat to human dignity but stops short of questioning an industry designed to automate human tasks.
- [Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO Is Funded by Other People’s Pensions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/elon-musks-spacex-ipo-is-funded-by-other-peoples-pensions): An IPO engineered for rapid index inclusion turns ordinary pension savers into involuntary financiers of Elon Musk’s fantasies.
- [Higher Interest Rates Punish Workers for a Crisis They Did Not Cause](https://www.socialeurope.eu/higher-interest-rates-punish-workers-for-a-crisis-they-did-not-cause): As central banks squeeze households, corporations protect their margins — and the European social model pays the price.
- [The ECB’s Costly Illusion: Rate Hikes That Do Not Reach Inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecbs-costly-illusion-rate-hikes-that-do-not-reach-inflation): Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.
- [Europe’s Climate Policies Keep Missing the People Who Need Them Most](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-climate-policies-keep-missing-the-people-who-need-them-most): Adaptation schemes built for the informed and well-off keep failing those most exposed to climate shocks.
- [Labour’s Coalition Has Shattered, and Starmer Needs A Theory to Rebuild It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labours-coalition-has-shattered-and-starmer-needs-a-theory-to-rebuild-it): Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why.
- [Habermas’s Gaza Misjudgment Does Not Doom His Legacy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/habermass-gaza-misjudgment-does-not-doom-his-legacy): His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.
- [Omnibus to Nowhere: The Quiet Dismantling of European Governance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/omnibus-to-nowhere-the-quiet-dismantling-of-european-governance): A single code word — “Omnibus” — now drives the most sweeping rewrite of European law in the Union’s history.
- [Why Reports of Sociology’s Public Death Are Greatly Exaggerated](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-reports-of-sociologys-public-death-are-greatly-exaggerated): Sociology has not surrendered its public voice to philosophy. It has lost the illusion that it speaks from nowhere.
- [Europe’s €2 Trillion Lever: Public Procurement Can Tame Big Tech](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-e2-trillion-lever-public-procurement-can-tame-big-tech): Europe spends €2 trillion a year buying goods and services; treating that money as mere book-keeping squanders a decisive democratic lever.
- [The Global South Cannot Afford to Quit Fossil Fuels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-global-south-cannot-afford-to-quit-fossil-fuels): Renewables have won the cost argument, yet poorer nations still pay a steep premium to deploy them.
- [Leveraging the EU Single Market to escape the Trump Trap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/leveraging-the-eu-single-market-to-escape-the-trump-trap): Twenty-one of 27 member states saw their exports fall under Trump’s tariffs; the EU’s strongest lever is its own single market.
- [The Right’s Pragmatism Is Just Another Ideology in Disguise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-rights-pragmatism-is-just-another-ideology-in-disguise): Conservatives who deride “isms” are not transcending ideology — they are smuggling theirs in unexamined.
- [Austerity Erodes The Governments That Impose It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austerity-erodes-the-governments-that-impose-it): Austerity packages reduce approval, drive protests, and raise the odds of a government crisis — especially in downturns.
- [A Post-American Europe Must Build Its Own Power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-post-american-europe-must-build-its-own-power): As Washington turns transactional and Beijing rises, Europe must convert its economic weight into genuine strategic power.
- [The EU Trades One Gas Dependence for Another](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-trades-one-gas-dependence-for-another): The bloc has swapped Russian pipelines for American tankers — without breaking its addiction to imported fossil fuels.
- [Sociology Is Surrendering Its Public Voice to Philosophy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sociology-is-surrendering-its-public-voice-to-philosophy): As modernity falters, sociology cannot diagnose the society it once helped define — and philosophy has taken its place.
- [No Procedure Can Manufacture a European Demos](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-procedure-can-manufacture-a-european-demos): Across federalist, fiscal and deliberative proposals, Europe’s reformers keep deferring the one question integration cannot bypass.
- [Targeted Infrastructure Spending Slows AfD Gains In Germany’s Industrial Heartlands](https://www.socialeurope.eu/targeted-infrastructure-spending-slows-afd-gains-in-germanys-industrial-heartlands): Targeted infrastructure spending dampens AfD vote growth in Germany’s transition-pressured regions, but innovation funding still bypasses them.
- [The Forty-Year Gap Between Europe’s Equality Law And Its Practice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-forty-year-gap-between-europes-equality-law-and-its-practice): European law forces 40 per cent gender balance on listed boardrooms but exempts the cabinets that actually wield public power.
- [Deregulation Will Make Europe Poorer, Not Stronger](https://www.socialeurope.eu/deregulation-will-make-europe-poorer-not-stronger): Three former European Commissioners warn that scrapping social protections in pursuit of competitiveness will leave the Union weaker, not stronger.
- [Declining Dollar Dominance: Potential Euro Gains](https://www.socialeurope.eu/declining-dollar-dominance-potential-euro-gains): Without large-scale joint debt and deeper safe-asset markets, the euro cannot capitalise on Trump’s assault on dollar credibility.
- [May 8 Belongs in the Calendar of Every European Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/may-8-belongs-in-the-calendar-of-every-european-democracy): As eyewitnesses fade and the far right reframes liberation as defeat, EU institutions must answer with policy.
- [Madrid Has the Cure for Trump-Era Energy Shocks](https://www.socialeurope.eu/madrid-has-the-cure-for-trump-era-energy-shocks): Spain’s heretical VAT cut tames inflation—a model for Europe as Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks bite.
- [AI Productivity Growth Won’t Match the Computer Revolution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-productivity-growth-wont-match-the-computer-revolution): AI Productivity growth will underwhelm, not because the technology is weak, but because it creates a bottleneck that earlier digital tools largely avoided.
- [A New Economics for the 21st Century](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-economics-for-the-21st-century): By coming out in favor of industrial policy after many decades of advising against government intervention in the economy, the World Bank has taken an important step.
- [MAGA Forges Christianity Into a Weapon of War](https://www.socialeurope.eu/maga-forges-christianity-into-a-weapon-of-war): From Hegseth’s crusader tattoos to Thiel’s apocalyptic sermons, MAGA is fusing Christianity with raw political power.
- [Trump’s Tragedy of Errors](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-tragedy-of-errors): Trump’s unchecked Iran war is wrecking supply chains, reigniting inflation, and deepening a global affordability crisis.
- [China’s Overcapacity Problem Is Europe’s Problem Too — But Not in the Way You Might Think](https://www.socialeurope.eu/chinas-overcapacity-problem-is-europes-problem-too-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-think): As Beijing acknowledges its own overcapacity problem, new research reveals a more complex and more enduring threat to European manufacturing.
- [Hungary After Orbán: Why Tisza’s “New Hungary” May Leave Workers Behind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungary-after-orban-why-tiszas-new-hungary-may-leave-workers-behind): Hungary’s new government promises to restore rule of law — but not labour rights.
- [Europe’s Migration Promises Are Building A Dangerous Expectation Trap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-migration-promises-are-building-a-dangerous-expectation-trap): Stricter return rules and border procedures sell reassurance to voters, but the evidence suggests Europe cannot deliver what politicians promise.
- [Europe’s Graduate Glut Collides With The AI Disruption](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-graduate-glut-collides-with-the-ai-disruption): Record applications to the EU civil service reveal saturated labour markets, a hollowed-out state and a generation exposed to automation.
- [Europe Chose Greek Deficits Over Hungarian Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-chose-greek-deficits-over-hungarian-democracy): In April 2010, the EU betrayed Greece and enabled Orbán — and has yet to reckon with either.
- [Hungary’s Long Road From Electoral Autocracy to Plural Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarys-long-road-from-electoral-autocracy-to-plural-democracy): Péter Magyar’s election victory gives Hungary its best chance in a generation to break with a centuries-long pattern of authoritarian rule.
- [The World Needs an Oil Buyers’ Club](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-world-needs-an-oil-buyers-club): As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor.
- [Europe Is Losing Its Industry To China’s Second Shock](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-is-losing-its-industry-to-chinas-second-shock): Surging Chinese exports, a sliding renminbi and a depleted European industrial base are colliding — and Brussels has run out of time to respond.
- [Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-valleys-anti-democratic-turn-begins-at-work): Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
- [Deregulation Demands Threaten the EU’s Best Chance to Close the Gender Pay Gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/deregulation-demands-threaten-the-eus-best-chance-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap): Employer lobbying to weaken the EU Pay Transparency Directive risks condemning European women to decades more of unequal pay.
- [What Hungary Can Learn From Poland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-hungary-can-learn-from-poland): Following Tisza’s victory over Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party in Sunday’s election, the opposition faces an uphill battle in trying to restore Hungary’s democracy.
- [EU Inc. Trades Worker Rights for Silicon Valley Fantasy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-inc-trades-worker-rights-for-silicon-valley-fantasy): The European Commission’s proposed EU Inc. corporate form promises startup-friendly simplicity but threatens worker participation, collective power, and Europe’s social model.
- [From Hitler’s Industrialists to Trump’s Tech Bros: The Case for Democracy at Work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-hitlers-industrialists-to-trumps-tech-bros-the-case-for-democracy-at-work): The alignment of America’s tech billionaires with authoritarian politics echoes 1930s industrial collaboration — but Germany and Spain offer a democratic remedy.
- [Big Tech and Populism Share a Common Enemy: Democratic Oversight](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-tech-and-populism-share-a-common-enemy-democratic-oversight): As artificial intelligence concentrates power among a handful of technology giants, the structural interests of those firms and of populist politics are quietly converging around a shared hostility to institutional constraints.
- [The United States Faces a Crisis It Once Diagnosed in Others](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-united-states-faces-a-crisis-it-once-diagnosed-in-others): Historians and political scientists now identify the United States as exhibiting the very warning signs it once monitored in fragile states abroad.
- [Empire Resurgent: How Ultra-Nationalism Is Dismantling the World Order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/empire-resurgent-how-ultra-nationalism-is-dismantling-the-world-order): The Israeli-US strike on Iran is not an isolated event, but the latest lurch in a systemic breakdown of international order — and the world must respond.
- [America’s Middle East War Exposes the Collapse of Its Own Strategy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-middle-east-war-exposes-the-collapse-of-its-own-strategy): The attack on Iran has shattered the very non-interventionist vision Trump’s own national security document enshrined just weeks earlier.
- [The Relative Rise of Europe’s Poor](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-relative-rise-of-europes-poor): Europe’s poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.
- [Four Decades of Data Reveal a European Workforce Transformed Beyond Recognition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/four-decades-of-data-reveal-a-european-workforce-transformed-beyond-recognition): Eurofound’s 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.
- [Europe Absorbs Orbán’s Playbook Even as Hungary May Reject It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-absorbs-orbans-playbook-even-as-hungary-may-reject-it): As Hungary nears a pivotal vote, Russian operatives and an entrenched power network cloud the path to democratic change.
- [Behind the Benchmarks: How EU Social Policy Fails Its Own Beneficiaries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/behind-the-benchmarks-how-eu-social-policy-fails-its-own-beneficiaries): EU social policy measures outputs efficiently — but the lived experience of its supposed beneficiaries tells a very different story.
- [Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taking-the-battle-for-human-attention-seriously): The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.
- [Abandoning International Law Means Choosing the Road to Great Barbarism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/abandoning-international-law-means-choosing-the-road-to-great-barbarism): The normalisation of war demands not the burial of international law, but its urgent reinvention — and Europe must lead the charge.
- [The Male Norm in Occupational Health Costs Women Their Wellbeing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-male-norm-in-occupational-health-costs-women-their-wellbeing): Workplace health and safety policies built around a male default leave millions of women exposed to risks that better regulation could prevent.
- [Social Rights: The View from the Council of Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-the-view-from-the-council-of-europe): During the High-level Conference on Social Rights this month in Chișinău, Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, gave an exclusive interview to Social Europe.
- [Growth Without Resilience: Europe’s Hidden Social Fracture](https://www.socialeurope.eu/growth-without-resilience-europes-hidden-social-fracture): A recent EU survey exposes the chasm between headline economic data and the financial reality confronting households across Europe.
- [The Vulnerability of Trump’s Personality Cult](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-vulnerability-of-trumps-personality-cult): Trump’s personality cult follows a well-worn historical playbook — but his pathological narcissism ensures he cannot deploy it effectively.
- [Social Rights: The Idea Whose Time Has Come?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-the-idea-whose-time-has-come): A remarkable consensus on social rights is emerging as Europe’s answer to inequality, democratic backsliding and geopolitical upheaval.
- [Proportional Representation Is Breaking Dutch Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/proportional-representation-is-breaking-dutch-democracy): As coalition formation grows ever more tortuous, the Netherlands must confront whether proportional representation itself is the problem.
- [Europe’s Duty-Free Access Bankrolls Myanmar’s Military Repression](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-duty-free-access-bankrolls-myanmars-military-repression): Five years after the coup, foreign brands and the EU’s trade preferences continue to generate hard currency for a military regime waging war on its own people.
- [Armed Conflict or Mutual Survival?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/armed-conflict-or-mutual-survival): Militarism and ecological collapse are not separate emergencies — they are the same emergency, feeding each other in a spiral humanity cannot afford to ignore.
- [Washington’s Russia U-Turn Exposes the Real Logic of Sanctions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/washingtons-russia-u-turn-exposes-the-real-logic-of-sanctions): The easing of Russian oil restrictions amid the Iran crisis reveals sanctions as tools of power, not justice.
- [Jürgen Habermas Shaped the Postwar Order — His Death Must Not Mark Its End](https://www.socialeurope.eu/jurgen-habermas-shaped-the-postwar-order-his-death-must-not-mark-its-end): The greatest democratic theorist of the postwar era leaves behind a world dismantling everything he defended.
- [Let’s Admit It. Americans Are Not Like Us](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lets-admit-it-americans-are-not-like-us): The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests.
- [Beyond Affordability: Why an Economy Built Only for Consumers Fails Everyone](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-affordability-why-an-economy-built-only-for-consumers-fails-everyone): Progressive politics has rediscovered affordability, but an economic agenda that ignores the dignity and quality of work is only half a strategy.
- [Liberal Democracy Depends on Social Rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/liberal-democracy-depends-on-social-rights): Democratic backsliding and rising social insecurity have gone hand in hand.
- [Iran May Become the Next Failed State — and Europe Will Pay the Price](https://www.socialeurope.eu/iran-may-become-the-next-failed-state-and-europe-will-pay-the-price): The US-Israeli assault on Iran was launched mid-negotiation, without UN backing, making it more dangerous to international law than Iraq.
- [Extreme Inequality Created the World Jeffrey Epstein Exploited](https://www.socialeurope.eu/extreme-inequality-created-the-world-jeffrey-epstein-exploited): The Epstein revelations are symptoms of a deeper crisis: a political economy that rewards extraction over creation and concentrates power in ever fewer hands.
- [Europe’s Centre-Left Chose Caution Over Conviction and Now Faces Collapse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-centre-left-chose-caution-over-conviction-and-now-faces-collapse): Bold choices, not better messaging, are the only way to save Europe’s centre-left from electoral extinction.
- [International Law’s Crisis of Faith: Double Standards from North to South](https://www.socialeurope.eu/international-laws-crisis-of-faith-double-standards-from-north-to-south): From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining the post-1945 order of its last reserves of legitimacy.
- [Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe’s Iran Response](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spain-and-norway-expose-the-bankruptcy-of-europes-iran-response): Europe’s response to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran exposes a continent locked in dependency and struggling to find its voice.
- [Pensions, Housing, Jobs: One Fund to Fix Them All](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pensions-housing-jobs-one-fund-to-fix-them-all): A compulsory second-tier pension fund invested exclusively in social housing would tame rents, boost employment, and deliver stable retirement income.
- [Populism’s Real Target in Europe Is Not the Elite — It Is the Worker](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populisms-real-target-in-europe-is-not-the-elite-it-is-the-worker): Populist leaders promise to empower “the people” but systematically sideline the institutions through which workers actually exercise power.
- [The Iran War Has Nothing to Do with Nuclear Weapons](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-iran-war-has-nothing-to-do-with-nuclear-weapons): The assault on Iran defies every stated justification; the real motives point to democratic backsliding and personal enrichment.
- [Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/iran-crisis-proves-europe-cannot-delay-its-industrial-transformation): The US–Israeli strikes on Iran lay bare every fault line in Europe’s energy dependence, industrial fragility, and strategic exposure — and demand an immediate policy response.
- [European Sovereignty Demands a Social Foundation, Not a US Blueprint](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-sovereignty-demands-a-social-foundation-not-a-us-blueprint): A ‘Draghi light’ agenda of deregulation risks social repression — but a bolder path rooted in Europe’s social democratic tradition offers a credible alternative.
- [Disorientation Is the Point: How Permanent Unpredictability Broke Democratic Politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/disorientation-is-the-point-how-permanent-unpredictability-broke-democratic-politics): Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.
- [The War on Iran Has Begun — Here Are Ten Issues That Will Shape What Comes Next](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-war-on-iran-has-begun-here-are-ten-issues-that-will-shape-what-comes-next): The American-Israeli assault has decapitated Iran’s regime, but the cascade of geopolitical consequences threatens to destabilise the entire global order.
- [Aid Is Not Development: We Need a Different Conversation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/aid-is-not-development-we-need-a-different-conversation): Despite trillions spent over decades, more people than ever face starvation—because aid was never designed to end poverty.
- [Fiscal Consolidation Costs Europe Jobs and Deepens Inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fiscal-consolidation-costs-europe-jobs-and-deepens-inequality): New research reveals that EU fiscal tightening reduces output, raises unemployment, and widens income gaps — especially during recessions.
- [The Locked-Out Generation: Europe’s Housing Market Is Failing Its Young](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-locked-out-generation-europes-housing-market-is-failing-its-young): Across the continent, soaring prices and stagnant supply have turned homeownership into a mirage for many young Europeans
- [Trump The Rebel King](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-the-rebel-king): Donald Trump has taken the exercise of power to its most absurd extreme. He rules a state that he seeks to destroy.
- [How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-orbans-fidesz-instrumentalises-hungarys-roma-as-an-electoral-prop): A senior minister’s vulgar remark about Roma “cleaning train toilets” was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature.
- [Why a Club of Six Nations Is Both Europe’s Best Hope and Its Greatest Risk](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-a-club-of-six-nations-is-both-europes-best-hope-and-its-greatest-risk): A German proposal to unite the EU’s six largest countries confronts a Union paralysed by the dominance of its smallest members.
- [All Quiet on the Eastern Front](https://www.socialeurope.eu/all-quiet-on-the-eastern-front): Russia’s war on Ukraine grinds into its fifth year, yet the Kremlin’s strategic position is deteriorating on every front.
- [How Gender Attitudes Shape Climate Concerns](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-gender-attitudes-shape-climate-concerns): Women are more likely to worry about the climate crisis than men. The concept of “hegemonic masculinity” explains this gender gap.
- [Right-Wing Think Tanks Are Building a New Hegemony — Europe’s Progressives Must Fight Back](https://www.socialeurope.eu/right-wing-think-tanks-are-building-a-new-hegemony-europes-progressives-must-fight-back): US plans to bankroll MAGA-aligned think tanks in Europe demand a forceful counterhegemonic response from democratic forces.
- [Will Democracy Govern Capitalism — or Be Consumed by It?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-democracy-govern-capitalism-or-be-consumed-by-it): Taxing extreme wealth and multinationals is essential to defeating “21st-century Caesarism” and reclaiming democratic governance from the global elite.
- [Europe’s Industrial Workers Back the Green Transition — It’s Political Chaos They Cannot Stomach](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-industrial-workers-back-the-green-transition-its-political-chaos-they-cannot-stomach): Austrian workers embrace sustainability but demand an end to the policy reversals that undermine their confidence and competitiveness.
- [Democratise Firms to Save Democracy and the Planet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democratise-firms-to-save-democracy-and-the-planet): To sustain democratic states, we must dismantle the autocracies that persist in our workplaces.
- [The World Needs Europe to Get Its Act Together – Fast](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-world-needs-europe-to-get-its-act-together-fast): If Europe is to assert itself on the global stage it needs to restore its self-confidence. Europe’s leaders must have the courage to chart their own course.
- [Back to the Future: Resisting Fascist Capitalism’s Great Reset](https://www.socialeurope.eu/back-to-the-future-resisting-fascist-capitalisms-great-reset): Against plutocrats and autocrats, the progressive response must be active defence of equality—not as slogan, but also as material condition.
- [Britain Must Choose Europe—and Its Leaders Need to Admit It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britain-must-choose-europe-and-its-leaders-need-to-admit-it): The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain’s path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe.
- [Made in Europe Must Serve Workers, Not Wealthy Shareholders](https://www.socialeurope.eu/made-in-europe-must-serve-workers-not-wealthy-shareholders): Europe’s industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.
- [How Europe Can Finally Deliver on Its Promise to Children](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-europe-can-finally-deliver-on-its-promise-to-children): Nearly a quarter of EU children face poverty—member states must learn from each other’s policy successes.
- [Europe and the End of the Post-War International Order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-and-the-end-of-the-post-war-international-order): As great powers abandon international law with impunity, Europe must unite or risk fragmentation and subordination.
- [Deregulating Workers’ Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/deregulating-workers-rights-will-not-save-european-industry-it-will-only-deepen-the-crisis): Blaming labour protections for factory closures is not industrial policy — it is avoidance dressed as reform.
- [The Digital Omnibus: Eroding Worker Protection and Rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-omnibus-eroding-worker-protection-and-rights): The European Commission’s “simplification” package is, in fact, a deregulatory intervention that weakens workers’ data rights.
- [Europe’s Best Tools for Countering Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-best-tools-for-countering-trump): Daniel Gros recommends targeted export tariffs, taxes on royalties, and the elimination of US Treasuries’ risk-free status.
- [Europe’s Budget Gamble: Why Cutting Cohesion Funds Will Backfire](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-budget-gamble-why-cutting-cohesion-funds-will-backfire): The EU’s proposed long-term budget sacrifices the very regional investment and social resilience that underpin competitiveness.
- [Will the European Union Protect Workers from Deadly Heat?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-the-european-union-protect-workers-from-deadly-heat): Current legal frameworks leave workers dangerously exposed; only a binding directive can close the gaps.
- [Why Europe Needs A New Social Federalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europe-needs-a-new-social-federalism): As empires grab resources and discard international law, the EU must forge a new social federalism—or become a vassal.
- [Should Comparative Economics Still Exist?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/should-comparative-economics-still-exist): Branko Milanovic asks whether we should continue to teach comparative economic systems to broaden students’ horizons, or if the global ubiquity of capitalism renders such historical study obsolete.
- [Putting People at the Heart of the AI Revolution in Finance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/putting-people-at-the-heart-of-the-ai-revolution-in-finance): Europe’s financial sector is racing to adopt artificial intelligence—but workers are being left behind without a voice in the transformation.
- [Trump Has Abandoned the World](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-has-abandoned-the-world): Gordon Brown emphasizes that America’s withdrawal from 66 international organizations is at odds with global public opinion.
- [Why the Left Must Defend Central Bank Independence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-left-must-defend-central-bank-independence): Donald Trump’s assault on the Federal Reserve should finally convince progressives that monetary autonomy is a democratic necessity.
- [AI Note-Takers at Work: The Silent Threat to Privacy and Compliance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-note-takers-at-work-the-silent-threat-to-privacy-and-compliance): AI transcription tools promise efficiency but bring legal exposure, surveillance risks, and threats to fundamental rights.
- [Why Is Putin Silent on Venezuela?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-is-putin-silent-on-venezuela): Nina L. Khrushcheva suspects that the Trump administration’s recent actions may have shaken the Russian leader’s confidence.
- [Hungary’s ‘National Consultations’ Are Not Referendums—Stop Treating Them as Such](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarys-national-consultations-are-not-referendums-stop-treating-them-as-such): Viktor Orbán’s pseudo-democratic questionnaires manufacture consent rather than measure it, yet European media uncritically repeat their results as fact.
- [The EU’s Regulatory Retreat on ESG Risks Reigniting Financial Instability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eus-regulatory-retreat-on-esg-risks-reigniting-financial-instability): The rush to “simplify” sustainability reporting ignores the lessons of 2008 and imperils Europe’s financial system.
- [Romania’s Tiger Economy Is Running Out of Fuel](https://www.socialeurope.eu/romanias-tiger-economy-is-running-out-of-fuel): The EU’s fastest-growing economy of the past two decades risks stalling unless it dramatically increases its rock-bottom spending on research and education.
- [What Jürgen Habermas Misses About American Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-jurgen-habermas-misses-about-american-democracy): Europe’s leading public intellectual offers a flawed, Eurocentric reading of US politics that obscures more than it reveals.
- [America’s New Age of Empire](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-new-age-of-empire): Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the rest of the world should plan for the worst and pursue a policy of containment of the US.
- [Why Social Democrats Must Stop Defending and Start Transforming](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-social-democrats-must-stop-defending-and-start-transforming): The centre-left’s defensive crouch has made it look like a guardian of an unfair status quo—radical reformism offers escape.
- [Appeasing Trump Makes Him More Dangerous by the Day](https://www.socialeurope.eu/appeasing-trump-makes-him-more-dangerous-by-the-day): Europe’s leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.
- [Can Hungary’s Opposition Finally Break Orbán’s Grip on Power?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-hungarys-opposition-finally-break-orbans-grip-on-power): After 15 years of Fidesz rule, an unlikely challenger threatens Viktor Orbán’s grip on Hungary but formidable obstacles remain.
- [Don’t Mourn, Organise: Europe’s Path Through Global Turbulence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dont-mourn-organise-europes-path-through-global-turbulence): As geopolitical threats mount and the far right advances, Europe must respond with principled strength and genuine industrial renewal.
- [Strength Without Weight: Ideas For A Post-Bureaucratic State](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strength-without-weight-ideas-for-a-post-bureaucratic-state): Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.
- [Venezuela And The Decline Of American Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/venezuela-and-the-decline-of-american-democracy): Timothy Snyder sees a familiar connection between US domestic repression and escalating foreign aggression.
- [Project 2025: From Nightmare To Reality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/project-2025-from-nightmare-to-reality): Trump has followed the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page blueprint almost to the letter, and its real enemy is internationalist socialism.
- [Europe Must Re-Build Its Architecture—Now!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-re-build-its-architecture-now): The US National Security Strategy confirms what Europeans already suspected: they must forge their own continental framework.
- [Europe’s Rail Renaissance: Why the Continent Must Finally Bet on Its Own Trains](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-rail-renaissance-why-the-continent-must-finally-bet-on-its-own-trains): The EU has the technology, the workers and the demand—now it needs the political will to turn its railway industry into a climate-policy success story.
- [Looking Into 2026: The Year That Could Be](https://www.socialeurope.eu/looking-into-2026-the-year-that-could-be): A decade after Brexit and Donald Trump’s first election to the US presidency, states are increasingly isolated from one another. Yet even without cause for optimism, one can – and must – muster hope.
- [Can the EU Still Escape the Authoritarian Pull of the USA?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-eu-still-escape-the-authoritarian-pull-of-the-usa): Waning US leadership and China’s new world order compel Europe to unite or face marginalization.
- [The EU’s Largest Investment Programme Holds Lessons We Cannot Afford to Ignore](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eus-largest-investment-programme-holds-lessons-we-cannot-afford-to-ignore): The Next Generation EU programme, despite sluggish implementation and limited coverage, reveals how industrial policy can drive green transition—if governments act.
- [Europe’s Foreign Policy Is Broken by Design—Here’s How to Fix It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-foreign-policy-is-broken-by-design-heres-how-to-fix-it): Kaja Kallas is not the problem; the EU’s dysfunctional institutional architecture is crippling its global influence.
- [Germany’s Middle-Technology Trap: Industrial Policy Blindness and the Path Out](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-middle-technology-trap-industrial-policy-blindness-and-the-path-out): Germany’s faith in free markets has left it squeezed between China and America — but a defence-spending loophole offers unexpected hope.
- [Industrial Policy 2.0: The Service Sector Path to Shared Prosperity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-2-0-the-service-sector-path-to-shared-prosperity): We must address climate change, inequality, and poverty simultaneously, but prevailing economic approaches are failing; solutions lie in an updated, experimental industrial policy focused on green and productive service job
- [Chile’s Democracy Faces Its Gravest Test Since Pinochet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/chiles-democracy-faces-its-gravest-test-since-pinochet): A far-right candidate threatens to dismantle decades of democratic progress in Latin America’s most celebrated success story.
- [Why European Universities Must Not Follow America’s](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-european-universities-must-not-follow-americas): The American model has produced rentier capitalism and functional illiteracy—Europe’s universities must return to their civilising mission.
- [The Digital Omnibus: Deregulation Dressed as Innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-omnibus-deregulation-dressed-as-innovation): The EU’s sweeping data and AI package loosens safeguards for workers while promising competitiveness gains that will flow mainly to US tech giants.
- [Poland Shows Hungary How Grassroots Democracy Can Defeat Authoritarian Drift](https://www.socialeurope.eu/poland-shows-hungary-how-grassroots-democracy-can-defeat-authoritarian-drift): Civil society and local autonomy proved decisive in Poland’s democratic revival—lessons Hungary must now learn.
- [Why Political Imagination Has Died—And How to Resurrect It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-political-imagination-has-died-and-how-to-resurrect-it): Margaret Thatcher’s ghost haunts global politics as leaders worldwide embrace her “no alternative” mantra, leaving citizens trapped in a system that refuses to acknowledge its own ideology.
- [Uruguay’s Enduring State: From Century-Old Consensus to Twenty-First Century Trials](https://www.socialeurope.eu/uruguays-enduring-state-from-century-old-consensus-to-twenty-first-century-trials): A nation built on public provision faces new tests as crime, inequality and demographic shifts challenge its foundational social contract.
- [The Algorithmic Workplace: How Platformisation Is Reshaping Work in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-algorithmic-workplace-how-platformisation-is-reshaping-work-in-europe): New evidence reveals that data-driven management now shapes how millions work across Europe—with profound implications for autonomy and well-being.
- [Sir Keir Starmer Wants Growth—Perhaps He Should Learn Spanish](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sir-keir-starmer-wants-growth-perhaps-he-should-learn-spanish): Spain’s socialist government has delivered economic growth three times faster than Britain’s; Labour would do well to study how.
- [The UK-EU Reset Needs Strategic Planning, Not Summit Improvisation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-uk-eu-reset-needs-strategic-planning-not-summit-improvisation): Without careful preparation and raised ambitions, the 2026 summit risks becoming a missed opportunity to inject real momentum into UK-EU relations.
- [Brazil in the Labyrinth: State, Democracy and Inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brazil-in-the-labyrinth-state-democracy-and-inequality): As Brazil approaches crucial elections, the country must confront deep structural challenges that have undermined democratic progress for decades.
- [Why Europe Should Be Serious About Transparency on Pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europe-should-be-serious-about-transparency-on-pay): The EU’s Pay Transparency Directive offers a powerful tool for equality, but only if member states implement it with rigour and ambition.
- [Europe’s Industrial Crisis: Invest Now or Accept Decline](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-industrial-crisis-invest-now-or-accept-decline): Across 18 sectors, only aerospace and defence remain globally competitive—Europe must abandon naivety and act decisively.
- [Trump’s Ukraine Deal Is the Wrong Way to Peace in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-ukraine-deal-is-the-wrong-way-to-peace-in-ukraine): Timothy Snyder thinks the proposed settlement negotiated by Russia and the US would make the world far more dangerous.
- [France’s Democratic Malaise: Stop Blaming Citizens, Start Reforming Institutions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/frances-democratic-malaise-stop-blaming-citizens-start-reforming-institutions): When eight in ten French citizens feel unrepresented, the problem lies not with democratic fatigue but with a political system that has forgotten how to listen.
- [Europe Must Abandon Appeasement and Confront Trump’s Hostile America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-abandon-appeasement-and-confront-trumps-hostile-america): The failure of European leaders’ strategy of accommodation proves that Trump’s United States has become an adversary, not an ally, demanding a fundamental shift in EU policy.
- [The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Why Europe Must Reinvest in Its Universities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-why-europe-must-reinvest-in-its-universities): To compete in the twenty-first century’s knowledge economy, Europe must transform its higher education system into a strategic powerhouse.
- [Europe’s Eco-Social Union: The Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Great Transformation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-eco-social-union-the-infrastructure-for-tomorrows-great-transformation): As climate ambitions falter, Europe’s unique framework for linking social and ecological goals may prove more resilient—and revolutionary—than it appears.
- [After Landmark EU Court Judgement: The EU Minimum Wages Directive Is Alive and Kicking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-landmark-eu-court-judgement-the-eu-minimum-wages-directive-is-alive-and-kicking): The landmark ruling validates the directive’s approach to adequate wages and collective bargaining, dealing only minor setbacks to its implementation across Europe.
- [Domination Without Order: How Libertarianism Betrays the Freedom of the Other](https://www.socialeurope.eu/domination-without-order-how-libertarianism-betrays-the-freedom-of-the-other): The libertarian promise of freedom masks a darker reality: absolute liberation for the few means domination for the many.
- [Belgium’s Workers Rise Against Austerity as Government Doubles Down on Cuts](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belgiums-workers-rise-against-austerity-as-government-doubles-down-on-cuts): Historic protests and escalating strikes challenge a coalition determined to slash social protections while boosting corporate subsidies.
- [Europe’s Green Deal: An Economic Imperative, Not a Burden](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-green-deal-an-economic-imperative-not-a-burden): Abandoning climate ambition would forfeit Europe’s competitive advantage in the trillion-euro green technology market.
- [Time to Move Forward So We Don’t Go Back](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-move-forward-so-we-dont-go-back): In a world gripped by far-right populism, Spain’s progressive government proves that advancing the welfare state—not merely defending it—is the best vaccine against reactionary politics.
- [Are We Humans or Homo Economicus? Why Economics Needs to Evolve Beyond Growth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/are-we-humans-or-homo-economicus-why-economics-needs-to-evolve-beyond-growth): Economics assumes we behave like chimps, but humans are far more cooperative—and our economic models must catch up.
- [Europe’s Digital Welfare Revolution: Progress at What Price?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-digital-welfare-revolution-progress-at-what-price): As Europe races to digitalise its social protection systems, the promise of efficiency collides with the reality of exclusion—creating a paradox where the most vulnerable risk being left furthest behind.
- [Social Democracy’s Lost Spark: When the Third Way Led Nowhere](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democracys-lost-spark-when-the-third-way-led-nowhere): The centre-left’s millennial triumph marked not a new dawn but the beginning of a long decline into cautious centrism.
- [EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-upholds-minimum-wage-directive-in-victory-for-social-europe): The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
- [The Light Still Flickers: Why Europe Must Rediscover Its Fighting Spirit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-light-still-flickers-why-europe-must-rediscover-its-fighting-spirit): Against the populist darkness threatening democracy, Europeans must remember that enlightenment principles require active defence—and the courage to confront bullies.
- [Estonia’s Digital Frontier: When Perfect E-Government Meets the Paradox of Trust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/estonias-digital-frontier-when-perfect-e-government-meets-the-paradox-of-trust): Efficiency without empathy risks turning citizens into data points—Estonia’s digital frontier reveals the human limits of technological perfection.
- [When Algorithms Undermine Democracy: Europe’s Wake-Up Call](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-algorithms-undermine-democracy-europes-wake-up-call): Algorithmic power threatens the foundations of democratic oversight—and Sweden’s experience shows why Europe must act now.
- [The Trouble with Abundance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-trouble-with-abundance): “Abundance” sounds appealing, but institutional competence and economic wisdom matter more than uplifting slogans.
- [The European Social Model: Key to Competitive Growth?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-social-model-key-to-competitive-growth): As Europe faces mounting global challenges, its distinctive social framework may hold the answer to achieving both economic competitiveness and social cohesion.
- [Europe Needs Industrial Policy That Puts Workers First in an Age of Uncertainty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-industrial-policy-that-puts-workers-first-in-an-age-of-uncertainty): Bold industrial strategy must combine green transformation with social justice to secure Europe’s economic future.
- [Zohran Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/zohran-mamdanis-win-and-the-price-of-urban-life-why-city-voters-are-seeking-change): The soaring costs of city life appear to be sending urban voters toward progressive leaders who promise relief, both in the U.S. and globally.
- [Democracy’s Ratchet Effect: Why the Left and Centre Must Unite Against Rising Authoritarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracys-ratchet-effect-why-the-left-and-centre-must-unite-against-rising-authoritarianism): As emergencies mount and extremism feeds on paralysis, democratic forces need more than lowest-common-denominator coalitions to break the cycle of political decay.
- [Albania’s AI Minister Cannot Fix What Citizens No Longer Trust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/albanias-ai-minister-cannot-fix-what-citizens-no-longer-trust): Bold reforms and EU progress ring hollow when inequality deepens and Albanians choose to leave the country.
- [When Democracy and Liberalism Collide: America’s Governance Crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-democracy-and-liberalism-collide-americas-governance-crisis): The United States is dismantling the very institutions designed to solve its problems—a paradox that reveals a deeper conflict between democratic will and liberal principles.
- [Europe’s Self-Inflicted Wound: The Corporate Responsibility Retreat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-self-inflicted-wound-the-corporate-responsibility-retreat): By dismantling corporate sustainability rules, European businesses are handing competitive advantages to their foreign rivals.
- [Botswana’s Critical Transition: From Parental Provider to Democratic Enabler](https://www.socialeurope.eu/botswanas-critical-transition-from-parental-provider-to-democratic-enabler): As diamond revenues collapse and public trust erodes, Botswana’s new government attempts a fundamental reimagining of the state-citizen relationship.
- [Sovereignism: Europe’s Most Dangerous Political Plague](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sovereignism-europes-most-dangerous-political-plague): The transnational crises of our era demand European solutions, yet national leaders cling to sovereignty games that leave citizens vulnerable and searching for scapegoats.
- [Universities Must Stay Global in a Fragmenting World](https://www.socialeurope.eu/universities-must-stay-global-in-a-fragmenting-world): As global fragmentation accelerates, higher education faces pressure to abandon its international mission—but history shows that open, engaged universities are essential for human progress.
- [Europe’s Defence Dilemma: Why Fiscal Union Is No Longer Optional](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-defence-dilemma-why-fiscal-union-is-no-longer-optional): Without radical institutional reform, Europe cannot mount the defence it desperately needs against an increasingly aggressive Russia.
- [Europe’s Housing Crisis Threatens the Foundations of Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-housing-crisis-threatens-the-foundations-of-democracy): Affordable homes built the post-war social contract—their absence today fuels political extremism.
- [Climate Refugees Are Already Here—And Democracy Hangs In The Balance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-refugees-are-already-here-and-democracy-hangs-in-the-balance): As island nations sink beneath rising seas, the world faces a stark choice: build walls or build solidarity in the face of climate-driven displacement.
- [Europe’s Geothermal Moment: What Iceland’s Energy Revolution Teaches Us](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-geothermal-moment-what-icelands-energy-revolution-teaches-us): Iceland transformed its heating system from oil to geothermal at a surprising speed—Europe should take note.
- [Europe’s Real Security Crisis: Why Social And Ecological Protection Must Unite](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-real-security-crisis-why-social-and-ecological-protection-must-unite): The EU’s next budget threatens to slash climate transition funds for military spending. But Europe’s gravest security threats already strike inside our borders — killing 62,000 citizens last year alone.
- [Portugal’s Democratic Paradox: How A Democracy Confronts The Crisis Of Trust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-democratic-paradox-how-a-democracy-confronts-the-crisis-of-trust): Fifty years after dictatorship, Portugal faces the challenge of rebuilding faith in democratic institutions while delivering on citizens’ rising expectations.
- [Europe Needs A Public Investment Revolution To Secure Its Economic Future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-a-public-investment-revolution-to-secure-its-economic-future): Boosting infrastructure spending would stimulate growth and employment without threatening debt sustainability.
- [The Real Digital Revolution At Work: Why Platformisation Matters More Than Robots](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-real-digital-revolution-at-work-why-platformisation-matters-more-than-robots): The digital transformation of work isn’t destroying jobs through automation—it’s fundamentally reshaping how work is organised, managed and controlled.
- [Paradise Lost: New Zealand’s Crisis Of State And Identity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/paradise-lost-new-zealands-crisis-of-state-and-identity): As economic stagnation meets constitutional discord, the remote archipelago faces fundamental questions about its future as a unified nation.
- [From Surveillance To Sedation: The Rise Of Blue Pill Capitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-surveillance-to-sedation-the-rise-of-blue-pill-capitalism): We are witnessing a disturbing evolution in digital capitalism—from harvesting our data to trapping us in fantasies that profit from our isolation.
- [Europe’s Social Innovation Revolution: From Crisis Response To Systemic Transformation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-social-innovation-revolution-from-crisis-response-to-systemic-transformation): Bold investment in social innovation is essential if Europe wants to tackle twenty-first-century challenges beyond market and state solutions.
- [The Digital Imperative for European SMEs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-imperative-for-european-smes): Europe’s SME digital divide persists despite EU efforts, with financial constraints and skills shortages hindering transformation.
- [Why Europe Needs an Industrial Policy for Services](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europe-needs-an-industrial-policy-for-services): Manufacturing can’t create jobs anymore. Services must step up—with smart policy to boost productivity.
- [Digital Europe: Brand of Countries or Countries with a Brand?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/digital-europe-brand-of-countries-or-countries-with-a-brand): The EU abolished physical borders decades ago, yet digital walls fragment the continent more than ever before.
- [Belgian Workers March Against Austerity As Government Targets The Most Vulnerable](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belgian-workers-march-against-austerity-as-government-targets-the-most-vulnerable): Bold promises of sustainable jobs and increased purchasing power have evaporated into austerity measures that spare only the wealthy.
- [The “Deliveroo” Theory of Politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-deliveroo-theory-of-politics): Populists win despite delivery: identity politics, grievance, and scapegoating trump economic performance and competence.
- [The Roots of Europe’s Mental Health Crisis Run Deep](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-roots-of-europes-mental-health-crisis-run-deep): Europe’s mental health crisis demands urgent action on social conditions, not just healthcare services.
- [Keir Starmer Finds His Fighting Spirit: Labour’s Blueprint to Beat Back the Far Right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/starmer-finds-his-fighting-spirit-labours-blueprint-to-beat-back-the-far-right): With Reform surging ahead, Labour must win the narrative battle or face electoral oblivion by 2029.
- [Could Ukraine’s Reparations Loan End The EU’s Paralysing Foreign Policy Veto?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/could-ukraines-reparations-loan-end-the-eus-paralysing-foreign-policy-veto): A €140 billion loan secured against frozen Russian assets may force Europe to abandon unanimity voting—and finally give the EU real geopolitical power.
- [The Sun Sets on the Transatlantic Dream](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-sun-sets-on-the-transatlantic-dream): As Trump weakens Western alliances and democracy erodes at home, Europeans confront a painful truth: yesterday’s world is gone.
- [Finland’s Right-Wing Coalition Plans Fifty Years of Austerity Through National Debt Brake](https://www.socialeurope.eu/finlands-right-wing-coalition-plans-fifty-years-of-austerity-through-national-debt-brake): Finland’s government wants public debt below 40 percent of GDP, forcing decades of cuts stricter than EU rules.
- [Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts](https://www.socialeurope.eu/restoring-public-sector-capacity-where-it-counts): Cities face crises first. Investing in capable, adaptive local governments is essential for resilience, inclusion, and democracy.
- [How to Get European Territories Future-Ready](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-get-european-territories-future-ready): The EU must abandon insularity and embrace global partnerships in futures governance to secure its place in a rapidly changing world.
- [How to Control the Increase of Income Inequality Due to New Technologies?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-control-the-increase-of-income-inequality-due-to-new-technologies): New technologies drive inequality by concentrating capital income. Three policy approaches can help spread ownership and moderate disparities.
- [Investing in Our Children’s Future Starts with Supporting the Workers Who Care for Them](https://www.socialeurope.eu/investing-in-our-childrens-future-starts-with-supporting-the-workers-who-care-for-them): Despite EU commitments to equality, children at risk of poverty remain severely underrepresented in early childhood education programs.
- [Trump Puts America Up for Sale: Everything Now Comes With a Price Tag](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-puts-america-up-for-sale-everything-now-comes-with-a-price-tag): From $100,000 work visas to million-dollar “gold cards,” Trump turns government services into transactions for the highest bidder.
- [Europe’s Digital Future Demands Public Ownership And Worker Control](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-digital-future-demands-public-ownership-and-worker-control): European AI strategy must prioritise democratic governance over market solutions to protect citizens’ data and workers’ rights.
- [Europe Needs Active Demand Management, Not Business As Usual](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-active-demand-management-not-business-as-usual): As tariff wars and industrial crises mount, Europe must abandon austerity for investment-driven internal demand.
- [Europe’s Wealth Gap Threatens Social Cohesion As Housing Crisis Deepens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-wealth-gap-threatens-social-cohesion-as-housing-crisis-deepens): Extreme wealth concentration across the EU undermines opportunity and security for millions while property ownership becomes increasingly unattainable.
- [Trump’s Show of Force](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-show-of-force): State governors are emerging as democracy’s last defenders against federal overreach and military deployments.
- [The Lethal Consensus: How Liberals Lost the War of Ideas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-lethal-consensus-how-liberals-lost-the-war-of-ideas): Bold visions defeat timid reforms—yet liberals insist on bringing policy briefs to an ideological gunfight.
- [What Can AI In Colombian Classrooms Teach Europe About Democratic Innovation?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-can-ai-in-colombian-classrooms-teach-europe-about-democratic-innovation): When rural schools experiment with artificial intelligence, they reveal whether technology serves the many or the few.
- [Why Putin Does Not Want Peace in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-putin-does-not-want-peace-in-ukraine): Even America’s most Russia-friendly president cannot deliver the ceasefire Moscow’s strategic calculations demand.
- [Violence As Policy in Trump’s America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/violence-as-policy-in-trumps-america): Trump uses far-right activist’s killing to justify violence while portraying himself as victim.
- [The Far Right Is Winning In Austria—Even In Opposition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-far-right-is-winning-in-austria-even-in-opposition): Austria’s government cuts welfare whilst hardening on immigration—a losing strategy that strengthens the far right.
- [Germany’s Misguided War on Baby Boomers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-misguided-war-on-baby-boomers): A prominent economist’s attack on an entire generation ignores economic facts and threatens social cohesion.
- [When Corporate Mergers Hurt Workers, Europe Must Act](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-corporate-mergers-hurt-workers-europe-must-act): Europe’s merger watchdogs generally ignore labour market impacts, but there is a possibility for change.
- [Ctrl+Alt+Delete as Policy: Why Deregulation Won’t Save EU Innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ctrlaltdelete-as-policy-why-deregulation-wont-save-eu-innovation): The European Commission’s push to slash regulations in pursuit of competitiveness risks undermining the very foundations of technological progress.
- [The Middle East Conflict: What Would Albert Einstein Have Said?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-middle-east-conflict-what-would-albert-einstein-have-said): Albert Einstein’s genius for unconventional thinking offers a provocative framework for breaking today’s deadly stalemate through economic compensation.
- [Federation or Vassalisation, It’s Decision Time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/federation-or-vassalisation-its-decision-time): Europe must choose: federal union and self-determination, or decline into division and American vassalage.
- [The ECB Must Embrace Europe’s Green Finance Rules To Secure Both Climate Goals And Financial Stability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecb-must-embrace-europes-green-finance-rules-to-secure-both-climate-goals-and-financial-stability): Integrating sustainable finance standards into central bank operations would align market incentives and strengthen the eurozone’s climate resilience.
- [The EU’s Industrial Policy Needs Better Governance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eus-industrial-policy-needs-better-governance): Europe’s fragmented approach to industrial strategy undermines its ability to compete with China and the United States.
- [Europe’s Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today’s Grand Challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-innovation-agencies-need-radical-reform-to-meet-todays-grand-challenges): Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
- [Industrial Policy Must Include Citizens And Workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-must-include-citizens-and-workers): Europe’s twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.
- [Europe’s Green Jobs Crisis: Why Slow Decarbonisation Threatens Employment More Than Climate Action](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-green-jobs-crisis-why-slow-decarbonisation-threatens-employment-more-than-climate-action): Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.
- [Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy Demands Equitable Global Partnerships](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-critical-raw-materials-strategy-demands-equitable-global-partnerships): The EU’s industrial ambitions hinge on transforming extractive relationships into sustainable partnerships with resource-rich nations.
- [Germany’s Minimum Wage Hike In Accordance With The European Minimum Wage Directive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-minimum-wage-hike-in-accordance-with-the-european-minimum-wage-directive): Germany’s wage commission sets a new course, linking pay floor to EU benchmark after years of modest rises.
- [Europe’s Energy Divide: Why the Green Transition Risks Leaving Half the Continent Behind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-energy-divide-why-the-green-transition-risks-leaving-half-the-continent-behind): As fossil fuel dependency threatens sovereignty, the EU’s fragmented response deepens existing inequalities.
- [Europe’s Quest for Technological Sovereignty: A Feasible Path Amidst Global Rivalries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-quest-for-technological-sovereignty-a-feasible-path-amidst-global-rivalries): The European Union must pursue robust industrial policies to counter technological dependencies and safeguard its future prosperity and stability.
- [Reclaiming Sutan Sjahrir: The Quiet Moral Core of Democratic Socialism in Southeast Asia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reclaiming-sutan-sjahrir-the-quiet-moral-core-of-democratic-socialism-in-southeast-asia): Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia’s first Prime Minister, offers a forgotten blueprint for ethical leadership.
- [A Fair Future? How Equality Will Define Europe’s Next Chapter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-fair-future-how-equality-will-define-europes-next-chapter): Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.
- [A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-progressive-industrial-policy-for-the-global-south-a-latin-american-perspective): The Global South must redefine industrial policy to build new productive capabilities and address escalating global challenges.
- [Europe’s Green Transition: A Fund Under Pressure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-green-transition-a-fund-under-pressure): The EU’s flagship Just Transition Fund, designed to mitigate social inequalities, faces significant challenges in achieving its ambitious goals.
- [Housing Crisis Threatens to Fracture Central and Eastern Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/housing-crisis-threatens-to-fracture-central-and-eastern-europe): A lack of affordable housing in urban centres is driving political instability across Central and Eastern Europe.
- [AI’s Impact on Europe’s Job Market: A Call for a Social Compact](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ais-impact-on-europes-job-market-a-call-for-a-social-compact): The European Union must urgently address AI’s profound impact on employment, income, and social cohesion.
- [Europe’s Perilous Path: It’s a Rush Before the Crash](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-perilous-path-its-a-rush-before-the-crash): Europe is on a self-destructive course with no plausible remedies for mounting problems. The result is widespread uncertainty, helplessness and fear.
- [The EU’s Landmark Mercosur Deal Promises Much But Delivers Little](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eus-landmark-mercosur-deal-promises-much-but-delivers-little): The revised EU-Mercosur trade deal offers limited economic benefits for Europe, while its environmental provisions may undermine the bloc’s climate ambitions.
- [Will Denmark Lead Europe Towards a Super-Rich Tax?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-denmark-lead-europe-towards-a-super-rich-tax): Despite past failures, growing public support and recent international initiatives offer Copenhagen an opportunity to push for wealth taxation.
- [Britain Rediscovers Europe as Macron and Merz Lead a Democratic Reawakening](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britain-rediscovers-europe-as-macron-and-merz-lead-a-democratic-reawakening): With Trump looming and war in Europe, Britain finds renewed purpose in unity with France and Germany.
- [Europe’s Appeasement Dilemma: The Price of Standing Against Putin](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-appeasement-dilemma-the-price-of-standing-against-putin): While the West rightly resists Russian aggression, European leaders risk self-respect and global standing by appeasing Donald Trump.
- [The ECB’s Strategic Review: A Betrayal of Europe’s Workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecbs-strategic-review-a-betrayal-of-europes-workers): The European Central Bank’s latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour’s vital role.
- [Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-far-right-copies-trump-and-its-working): Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications.
- [America’s Systemic Chaos Strategy: Europe Must Forge a New Path](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-systemic-chaos-strategy-europe-must-forge-a-new-path): The United States’ latest tariffs on Europe and Mexico demand a bold European response to reshape the global order.
- [When Ideology Trumps Economic Interests](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-ideology-trumps-economic-interests): The fall of Biden’s green subsidies reveals ideology, not economics, as the true force in US politics.
- [The Competitiveness Trap: Why Only Shared Prosperity Delivers Economic Strength—and Resilience Against the Far Right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-competitiveness-trap-why-only-shared-prosperity-delivers-economic-strength-and-resilience-against-the-far-right): Europe’s pervasive far-right challenge is enduring.
- [The End of an Era: What’s Next After Globalisation?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-an-era-whats-next-after-globalisation): The age of global consensus has ended, demanding a new, strategic, and resilient approach to globalisation.
- [Germany’s Subcontracting Ban in the Meat Industry](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-subcontracting-ban-in-the-meat-industry-a-blueprint-for-better-worker-protection): A landmark German law has drastically improved working conditions in the meat industry.
- [EU’s New Fiscal Rules: Balancing Budgets with Green and Digital Ambitions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eus-new-fiscal-rules-balancing-budgets-with-green-and-digital-ambitions): The recently enacted EU fiscal framework aims for fiscal prudence but poses challenges for funding the green and digital transition.
- [The Dangerous Metaphor of Unemployment “Scarring”](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-dangerous-metaphor-of-unemployment-scarring): The concept of “scarring” in unemployment policy is a misleading metaphor with significant, negative consequences for individuals.
- [Why Progressive Governments Keep Failing — And How to Finally Win Back Voters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-progressive-governments-keep-failing-and-how-to-finally-win-back-voters): Progressives must act fast, make change visible, and perform powerfully — or watch populists fill the void.
- [A Transatlantic Reckoning: Why Europe Needs a New Pact Beyond Defence Spending](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-transatlantic-reckoning-why-europe-needs-a-new-pact-beyond-defence-spending): The European Union faces an existential choice: succumb to economic nationalism or forge a new transatlantic order.
- [Trade Unions Resist EU Bid to Weaken Corporate Sustainability Laws](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-resist-eu-bid-to-weaken-corporate-sustainability-laws): Global labour leaders warn that proposed changes could leave millions of workers exposed.
- [The West’s Defence Now Depends on Trump’s Mood Swings](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-wests-defence-now-depends-on-trumps-mood-swings): As Trump looms over NATO, Europe must rediscover resilience – and its own collective voice.
- [The Dark Side Of The Boom In Last-Mile Logistics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-dark-side-of-the-boom-in-last-mile-logistics): The rapid growth of logistics and e-commerce is fuelling a race to the bottom for workers, with widespread subcontracting driving down pay and conditions.
- [Why European Security and Sovereignty Depend on Its Digital Sector](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-european-security-and-sovereignty-depend-on-its-digital-sector): Mario Draghi’s vision for Europe demands more than investment—it calls for digital sovereignty, state capacity, and strategic power.
- [As Temperatures Rise, European Workers Face a Looming Threat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/as-temperatures-rise-european-workers-face-a-looming-threat): The European Trade Union Confederation is urgently calling for a new directive to protect workers from the escalating dangers of extreme heat.
- [Europe Must Prepare for Security Without America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-prepare-for-security-without-america): European leaders face an unprecedented challenge: building continental defence whilst managing an unpredictable American president.
- [Why Real Democracy Needs Conflict, Not Consensus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-real-democracy-needs-conflict-not-consensus): Real democracy thrives on disagreement—unity without conflict often masks power and silences necessary political struggle.
- [Europe’s Bid for Autonomy: The Euro’s Evolving Global Role](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-bid-for-autonomy-the-euros-evolving-global-role): President Christine Lagarde’s recent proposal signals a pivotal shift, aiming to elevate the euro’s international standing and bolster European foreign policy independence.
- [Navigating Uncertainty: Germany’s SPD Grapples with Its Future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/navigating-uncertainty-germanys-spd-grapples-with-its-future): Despite securing key ministries and policy successes, Germany’s Social Democrats face internal disarray and a fractured vision at their upcoming party conference.
- [The War on the Liberal Class](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-war-on-the-liberal-class): Liberalism’s core class is under siege—can the liberal order survive the global backlash against its institutional power?
- [The Future of Social Democracy: How the German SPD can Win Again](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-social-democracy-how-the-german-spd-can-win-again): Social democracy can’t survive without vision. The SPD must rediscover its purpose and emotional power.
- [How Trump’s Tariff Regime Fuels Global Oligarchy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-trumps-tariff-regime-fuels-global-oligarchy): Trump’s radical tax vision could dismantle the IRS, reshape global inequality—and fuel a new economic war.
- [Universities Under Siege: A Global Reckoning for Higher Education](https://www.socialeurope.eu/universities-under-siege-a-global-reckoning-for-higher-education): Governments worldwide are dramatically reshaping higher education, challenging long-held models and academic autonomy.
- [How Trade Unions Can Champion Solidarity in Europe’s Migration Debate](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-trade-unions-can-champion-solidarity-in-europes-migration-debate): As migration policy reaches a crucial juncture, trade unions in Europe are challenged to expand solidarity-based strategies amidst intensifying crackdowns.
- [The Weak Strongman: How Trump’s Presidency Emboldens America’s Enemies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-weak-strongman-how-trumps-presidency-emboldens-americas-enemies): Trump performs strength at home—but abroad, adversaries see only institutional collapse and strategic weakness.
- [Ballots or Bans: How Should Democracies Respond to Extremists?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ballots-or-bans-how-should-democracies-respond-to-extremists): As extremists exploit democracy’s freedoms, should constitutions strike back—or always leave judgment to the ballot box?
- [Mind the Gap: Can Europe Afford Its Green and Digital Future?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mind-the-gap-can-europe-afford-its-green-and-digital-future): Amid vast investment shortfalls, the European Union must rethink its funding strategy to achieve its ambitious goals.
- [Finland’s Austerity Gamble: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Pain for the Poor](https://www.socialeurope.eu/finlands-austerity-gamble-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-pain-for-the-poor): A right-wing government’s fiscal policies, sold as a path to sustainability, appear to favour corporations and the wealthy, while the working majority face harsh cuts.
- [The Enduring Appeal of the Hybrid Workplace](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-enduring-appeal-of-the-hybrid-workplace): For some workers, the future of work is not fully remote, nor fully in the office. It is, increasingly, a clever combination of both.
- [Europe’s Euro Ambition: A Risky Bid for “Exorbitant Privilege”](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-euro-ambition-a-risky-bid-for-exorbitant-privilege): Christine Lagarde seeks a greater international role for the euro, but Europe’s economic realities present a complex challenge.
- [Trump’s Attacks on Academia: Is the U.S. University System Itself to Blame?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-attacks-on-academia-is-the-u-s-university-system-itself-to-blame): Amid Donald Trump’s hostility towards universities the question remains: how did the US leading scholars lose trust?
- [Shaping the Future of Digital Work: A Bold Proposal for Platform Worker Rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shaping-the-future-of-digital-work-a-bold-proposal-for-platform-worker-rights): A new draft convention proposes to establish a comprehensive rights and protections for platform workers globally.
- [Europe Must Adapt to Its Ageing Workforce](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-adapt-to-its-ageing-workforce): As the continent’s birth rates decline and its population ages, policymakers face the urgent task of retaining experienced workers and adapting workplaces.
- [Poland’s Polarised Election Signals a Wider Crisis for Liberal Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/polands-polarised-election-signals-a-wider-crisis-for-liberal-democracy): A razor-thin victory for the national-conservative Law and Justice Party reveals deep societal divisions and a broader erosion of centrist coalitions across the West.
- [Poland’s War Against Itself](https://www.socialeurope.eu/polands-war-against-itself): A shocking upset hands Poland’s presidency to a far-right populist with a scandal-ridden past and extremist allies.
- [Europe’s Businesses Face a Quiet Takeover as US Investors Capitalise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-businesses-face-a-quiet-takeover-as-us-investors-capitalise): American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.
- [Portugal’s Political Earthquake: Centrist Grip Crumbles, Right Ascends](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-political-earthquake-centrist-grip-crumbles-right-ascends): A seismic shift in Portugal’s 2025 elections reflects a broader Western trend: the erosion of centrist dominance and the rise of populist forces.
- [“The Universities Are the Enemy”: Why Europe Must Act Now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-universities-are-the-enemy-why-europe-must-act-now): The EU should welcome US scholars fleeing Trump’s assault on academia—and lead in global innovation and freedom.
- [Britain’s COVID Generation: Why Social Democracy Must Seize the Moment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britains-covid-generation-why-social-democracy-must-seize-the-moment): COVID spotlighted inequality. Europe must act—or lose a generation to austerity’s long shadow and policy neglect.
- [Trump’s ‘Golden Era’ Fades as European Allies Face Harsh New Reality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-golden-era-fades-as-european-allies-face-harsh-new-reality): Once optimistic, key European leaders who backed Donald Trump now face stinging tariffs and a new, uncompromising Washington.
- [Closing the Chasm: Central and Eastern Europe’s Continued Minimum Wage Climb](https://www.socialeurope.eu/closing-the-chasm-central-and-eastern-europes-continued-minimum-wage-climb): Minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe continue to rise.
- [Ending Britain’s “Brief Encounter” with Brexit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ending-britains-brief-encounter-with-brexit): A romantic Brexit reset? UK and EU edge closer to ending their brief but painful post-referendum encounter.
- [The Future of American Soft Power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-american-soft-power): Soft power helped America lead the world. Trump’s wrecking ball diplomacy risks handing that role to China.
- [Trump Can’t Kill the Boom: Why the US Economy Will Roar Despite Him](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-cant-kill-the-boom-why-the-us-economy-will-roar-despite-him): Markets, innovation, and AI are overpowering Trump’s chaos—and pushing America toward 4% growth, recession or not.
- [How the Billionaire Boom Is Fueling Inequality—and Threatening Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-billionaire-boom-is-fueling-inequality-and-threatening-democracy): As wealth concentrates at the top, Europe must act now to defend democracy and economic stability for all.
- [Why Europe Needs Its Own AI Infrastructure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europe-needs-its-own-ai-infrastructure): Trump’s return highlights why Europe must build its own AI ecosystem—secure, competitive, and true to its values.
- [Europe Day with New Dimensions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-day-with-new-dimensions): Transatlantic Tensions Demand A New Geoeconomic Strategy For Europe.
- [How Europe’s Political Parties Abandoned Openness—and Left Populism to Fill the Void](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-europes-political-parties-abandoned-openness-and-left-populism-to-fill-the-void): Western parties stopped defending openness decades ago—now populists dominate a fight no one else dares to enter.
- [Funding the Future: Why the EU Needs a Bold New Budget](https://www.socialeurope.eu/funding-the-future-why-the-eu-needs-a-bold-new-budget): As the current long-term budget nears its end, the European Parliament is laying down its demands for a more ambitious financial framework to tackle mounting challenges.
- [The European Union’s Road to Abundance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-unions-road-to-abundance): Why Europe must embrace an “abundance agenda” to deliver results, restore trust, and counter rising populism.
- [How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-swedens-welfare-experiment-became-a-warning-to-europe): Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.
- [The Shadow of Unfreedom: A New Authoritarianism Grips the Globe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-shadow-of-unfreedom-a-new-authoritarianism-grips-the-globe): A harsh, right-wing authoritarianism is rising, casting a shadow of unfreedom as classic conservatism fades.
- [Italy’s Minimum Wage Dilemma: Will EU Pressure Force a Policy Shift?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italys-minimum-wage-dilemma-will-eu-pressure-force-a-policy-shift): Despite EU moves, Italy resists a national minimum wage amid trade union scepticism.
- [To Counter Populism and Bolster Security, Europe Must Reinvest In Its Citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-populism-and-bolster-security-europe-must-reinvest-in-its-citizens): Facing security threats and rising populism, Europe needs state investment in citizens, not austerity that fuelled discontent.
- [The End of Certainty: A New Geopolitical Era Begins in 2025](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-certainty-a-new-geopolitical-era-begins-in-2025): Europe must redefine its global role.
- [A Day to Remember: Why May 8th Should Be a Belgian Holiday](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-day-to-remember-why-may-8th-should-be-a-belgian-holiday): May 8th deserves to be a Belgian public holiday.
- [Trump’s America: The New Global Tax Haven?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-america-the-new-global-tax-haven): Trump is turning America into a tax haven, dismantling safeguards and fueling inequality through global deregulation.
- [The Rise and (Likely) Fall of Wokeness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-rise-and-likely-fall-of-wokeness): Woke culture emerged from elite shifts in identity politics, abandoning the economic roots of social justice.
- [The False Economy of Cutting Disability Benefits](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-false-economy-of-cutting-disability-benefits): Financial insecurity destroys lives. Slashing disability benefits isn’t reform—it’s cruelty disguised as cost-saving.
- [Robots Boost Workplace Safety, But Only in High-tech and Well-protected Economies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/robots-boost-workplace-safety-but-only-in-high-tech-and-well-protected-economies): New research reveals that automation benefits are not universal.
- [The Empire Strikes Back, and Europe is Confused](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-empire-strikes-back-and-europe-is-confused): Amid a world of resurgent imperial powers, a fragmented Europe grapples with its past and uncertain future.
- [Gaza’s Descent Into Catastrophe Tests Europe’s Conscience](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gazas-descent-into-catastrophe-tests-europes-conscience): As Gaza endures unprecedented horror, Europe cannot longer stay inactive.
- [Europe Is Fighting the Wrong Tech Battle — Here’s What It Should Do Instead](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-is-fighting-the-wrong-tech-battle-heres-what-it-should-do-instead): Europe’s tech future is at risk—from Trump, Big Tech, and its own flawed competitiveness obsession.
- [Europe at a Crossroads: Social Democrats Must Reclaim Iran Diplomacy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-at-a-crossroads-social-democrats-must-reclaim-iran-diplomacy): As US-Iran talks teeter, the EU’s once-pivotal diplomatic role risks fading. Social Democrats face a crucial moment to revive Europe’s voice.
- [Labour’s Deafening Silence on Turkey’s Jailed Opposition Leader Raises Eyebrows](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labours-deafening-silence-on-turkeys-jailed-opposition-leader-raises-eyebrows): European leaders speak out as Istanbul’s popular mayor is imprisoned — but Labour remains curiously quiet.
- [Governments Are Not Startups](https://www.socialeurope.eu/governments-are-not-startups): Governments aren’t startups – and trying to act like one is a fast track to failure.
- [Democracy Under Siege: Trade Unions Rise as a Bulwark Against the Far Right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-under-siege-trade-unions-rise-as-a-bulwark-against-the-far-right): Trade unions are poised to defend the institutions that bind society together.
- [Trump’s Policies Are Making Europe the New Education Superpower](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-policies-are-making-europe-the-new-education-superpower): As America’s global appeal diminishes amid domestic turmoil, Europe emerges as a beacon of stability and cultural leadership.
- [The Reactionary Revolution: How a New Conservatism Rejects the Old Order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-reactionary-revolution-how-a-new-conservatism-rejects-the-old-order): A new breed of conservative has emerged, one that paradoxically seeks radical change by yearning for a mythologised past.
- [American Suicide](https://www.socialeurope.eu/american-suicide): Mere months into his term, Trump wrecks global trade, abandons allies, empowers rivals, pushing America towards collapse.
- [Georgia’s Geopolitical Fixation Masks a Deeper Crisis of Representation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/georgias-geopolitical-fixation-masks-a-deeper-crisis-of-representation): Excessive focus on external threats obscures fundamental flaws in Georgia’s political system.
- [Fighting for Social Europe When Europe Is at War](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fighting-for-social-europe-when-europe-is-at-war): Europe faces its first major conflict since integration began, posing profound questions about unity, security, and the future of its social dimension.
- [Tariffs, the Dollar, and the End of Free Trade Consensus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tariffs-the-dollar-and-the-end-of-free-trade-consensus): Tariffs, crypto grift, and chaos—or is a deeper economic reordering already reshaping the global system?
- [Defence or Welfare? Europe Can Afford Both, and Must](https://www.socialeurope.eu/defence-or-welfare-europe-can-afford-both-and-must): Amidst geopolitical shifts, the notion that Europe must choose between security and social support is not only politically dangerous but also economically unsound.
- [Europe’s Equality Pledge in Peril: Can a Landmark Anti-Discrimination Law Be Saved?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-equality-pledge-in-peril-can-a-landmark-anti-discrimination-law-be-saved): A long-stalled EU proposal to broaden anti-discrimination protections faces withdrawal.
- [Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-tariff-gamble-global-chaos-or-calculated-concessions): A looming trade war and security threats leave European leaders scrambling to decipher the American president’s true intentions.
- [Industrial Policy for the Twin Transformation – A Progressive Agenda is Needed Now!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-for-the-twin-transformation-a-progressive-agenda-is-needed-now): The EU’s twin transformation requires a careful balance between climate action, digitalisation, and social fairness.
- [Platform Workers Crave Security, Not Freedom!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platform-workers-crave-security-not-freedom): They are not entrepreneurs: Study shows platform workers across 26 countries demand welfare state support and social security.
- [Why Trump Keeps Winning: The Truth No One Admits](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-trump-keeps-winning-the-truth-no-one-admits): Anger, not just inequality, drives white working-class voters—progressives must face uncomfortable truths to push back.
- [Donald Trump Is a Globalist](https://www.socialeurope.eu/donald-trump-is-a-globalist): Trump’s MAGA agenda poses as anti-globalist—but masks a self-serving, chaotic new form of globalism.
- [EU Secretly Shields Banks from Accountability—Here’s How](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-secretly-shields-banks-from-accountability-heres-how): Powerful lobbying has quietly exempted finance from an EU sustainability law, risking Europe’s environmental and human rights commitments.
- [Why Belgian Workers Are Striking Today – The Real Cost of the Arizona Coalition’s Austerity Agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-belgian-workers-are-striking-today-the-real-cost-of-the-arizona-coalitions-austerity-agenda): Belgian workers today protest deep cuts and the government’s refusal to tax the wealthy as needed.
- [How the World Can Push Back: The Playbook to Counter Trump’s Second Term](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-world-can-push-back-the-playbook-to-counter-trumps-second-term): As Trump tears up democratic norms, foreign governments must counter his playbook with bold, coordinated resistance.
- [Why Young Voters Are Ignoring Mainstream Politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-young-voters-are-ignoring-mainstream-politics): Political parties are failing to connect with young voters—can they rethink their strategies before it is too late?
- [Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-oval-office-spectacle-when-power-becomes-a-stage-for-humiliation): Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation.
- [Germany Lifts Limits on Military Spending Amid Nuclear Threat in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-lifts-limits-on-military-spending-amid-nuclear-threat-in-europe): As nuclear doubts grow, Germany faces tough choices amid fears Trump’s NATO retreat could spark nuclear proliferation across Europe.
- [America Is About to Become the Next Brexit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/america-is-about-to-become-the-next-brexit): As Trump plots a radical reshaping of global economics, allies must prepare for betrayal, chaos—and painful consequences.
- [Europe’s Silence Fuels Gaza Crisis—Can EU Act?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-silence-fuels-gaza-crisis-can-eu-act): As Trump and Netanyahu reignite Gaza conflict, Europe’s failure to respond risks severe regional consequences.
- [Germany Ditches Debt Brake—A Fiscal Revolution Begins](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-ditches-debt-brake-a-fiscal-revolution-begins): Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, and economic growth.
- [Europe’s Existential Choice: Democracy or Far-Right Chaos?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-existential-choice-democracy-or-far-right-chaos): Tax billionaires or risk democracy’s collapse—Europe faces an urgent decision between fairness and authoritarian decline.
- [Rebuilding Europe’s Security Architecture](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shaping-a-new-european-political-and-security-architecture): As Trump reshapes US foreign policy, Europe faces a security overhaul. Can a new coalition protect the continent from chaos?
- [Europe’s Collective Defence Depends on Economic Security and Social Stability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-collective-defence-depends-on-economic-security-and-social-stability): As EU leaders prioritise military spending, millions of industrial workers face austerity and job losses amid Europe’s growing polycrisis.
- [Europe’s Military Build-Up: Will Social Spending Be Sacrificed?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-military-build-up-will-social-spending-be-sacrificed): Europe must urgently increase defence budgets—but it doesn’t have to mean deep cuts to public services. Here’s the alternative.
- [Europe’s Awakening in Trumpland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-awakening-in-trumpland): Trump’s renewed assault on the EU has reignited a dormant sense of European purpose.
- [America is Gone and Europe Must Replace It](https://www.socialeurope.eu/america-is-gone-and-europe-must-replace-it): Europe must seize this historic moment, stepping up as America abdicates global leadership.
- [Europe’s Defence Crisis: Why More Spending Alone Will Not Keep the Continent Safe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-defence-crisis-why-more-spending-alone-will-not-keep-the-continent-safe): The EU’s fragmented defence system, inefficiencies, and reliance on the US leave it dangerously unprepared.
- [The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-showdown-in-trumpworld): Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.
- [What has been the Cost of Ukraine’s War—And Who Pays?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-has-been-the-cost-of-ukraines-war-and-who-pays): Three years on, the war in Ukraine has reshaped economies, lives, and global politics. Can Europe afford the price?
- [Britain’s Choice: Europe or a Collapsing America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britains-choice-europe-or-a-collapsing-america): As the USA withdraws from European security, Keir Starmer faces a defining moment: realign with Europe or cling to a fading alliance.
- [Europe’s Economic Future: Should It Follow America’s Lead or Forge Its Own Path?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-economic-future-should-it-follow-americas-lead-or-forge-its-own-path): The Draghi report warns of stagnation, but does Europe need more growth—or a new economic vision?
- [America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-oligarchs-are-trumps-achilles-heel): Trump’s “America First” policies upend global order, igniting calls to tax oligarchs and disrupt international trade.
- [Europe’s Last Chance: Unite or Fall Apart](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-last-chance-unite-or-fall-apart): As global tensions rise, Europe faces a stark choice—build a defence force and reshape global finance or risk irrelevance.
- [Austerity Strikes Again: The Hidden Agenda Behind the Cuts](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austerity-strikes-again-the-hidden-agenda-behind-the-cuts): Austerity is back—driven by politics, not economics. From the UK to Argentina and the US, the stakes are high.
- [Economics – An Apology](https://www.socialeurope.eu/economics-an-apology): Mainstream economics has shaped modern policymaking, but its failures and ideological divides reveal deeper systemic flaws.
- [Calling Time on 24/7 Work Connectivity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/calling-time-on-24-7-work-connectivity): The rapid development of new technologies is increasing pressure and forcing unlimited working time and growing stress among many workers across Europe.
- [The End of the ‘West’ and Europe’s Future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-the-west-and-europes-future): The West Is Over! What This Means for Europe.
- [How the Right Hijacked the Working Class for Culture Wars](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-right-hijacked-the-working-class-for-culture-wars): The alliance between reactionary forces and the working class is not built on shared economic interests but on a manufactured sense of cultural identity.
- [What Germany’s Election Means for the Western Left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-germanys-election-means-for-the-western-left): Fear of being left behind economically and socially proved to be potent fuel for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, which for the first time won more votes than the Social Democrats.
- [Europe’s Last Chance: Why the Union Must Reform or Face Ruin](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-last-chance-why-the-union-must-reform-or-face-ruin): Amid global autocrats and rising inequality, the European Union’s future hinges on structural reforms, ambitious investments and sustainability.
- [The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-minimum-wage-directive-to-be-or-not-to-be): Court challenge to EU minimum wage directive exposes tensions between legal interpretation, political compromise and social policy.
- [How to Finance European Defence?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-finance-european-defence): Europe must balance rising defence needs with social spending, or risk political turmoil and far-right gains.
- [Europe Needs an Ambitious Clean Industrial Deal with a Strong Social Heart](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-an-ambitious-clean-industrial-deal-with-a-strong-social-heart): Europe must act now to secure industrial jobs, ensure a Just Transition, and strengthen social conditions.
- [The Transatlantic Alliance Is Dying—What Comes Next for Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-transatlantic-alliance-is-dying-what-comes-next-for-europe): With US power in retreat, Europe must decide: unite, or face irrelevance in a dangerous world.
- [Europe Alone](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-alone): Europe stands at a crossroads: unite, rearm, and lead—or risk irrelevance in a dangerous new world.
- [Trump’s Trade War Tears North America Apart – Could Canada and Mexico Turn to Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-trade-war-tears-north-america-apart-could-canada-and-mexico-turn-to-europe): As Donald Trump dismantles free trade, Canada and Mexico face an urgent choice: endure or pivot.
- [Facing Trump: Why Europe Must Revive Common Debt](https://www.socialeurope.eu/facing-trump-why-europe-must-revive-common-debt): Mario Draghi’s report called for bold investment and common debt issuing, but it is fuelling a dangerous deregulatory push across Europe.
- [Austria’s Conservatives Trapped: Coalition or Collapse?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austrias-conservatives-trapped-coalition-or-collapse): The ÖVP’s’ coalition gamble failed, leaving Austrian politics adrift.
- [Totalitarian Democracy: How Populist Leaders Are Undermining Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/totalitarian-democracy-how-populist-leaders-are-undermining-democracy): Populist leaders exploit democracy to consolidate power, dismantle institutions and sideline expertise.
- [PartnerUp: Transforming Adult Education Through Lifelong Learning and Collaboration in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/partnerup-transforming-adult-education-through-lifelong-learning-and-collaboration-in-europe): Read about the achievements of PartnerUp Project.
- [China’s DeepSeek Is Changing the AI Race—What is Europe’s Edge?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/chinas-deepseek-is-changing-the-ai-race-what-is-europes-edge): DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough challenges US dominance and disrupts global competition.
- [The OECD’s Demographic Time Bomb: Why Governments Must Rethink Social Protection Now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-oecds-demographic-time-bomb-why-governments-must-rethink-social-protection-now): Ageing populations and falling birth rates threaten social protection.
- [Human Rights on the Edge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/human-rights-on-the-edge): Can human rights survive the decline of global Western hegemony?
- [Why Good Business Leaders Tune Out the Trump Noise and Stay Focused](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-good-business-leaders-tune-out-the-trump-noise-and-stay-focused): Amid political chaos, smart executives keep their eyes on real growth—green tech, innovation, and long-term resilience.
- [Mainstream Economics: A Catalogue of Failures](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mainstream-economics-a-catalogue-of-failures): A critique of mainstream economics’ failures and its resistance to change.
- [Confronting the Pandemic’s Toxic Political Legacy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/confronting-the-pandemics-toxic-political-legacy): Resentment over pandemic policies fuels far-right gains, deepens distrust in science, and reshapes politics in the US and Europe.
- [World Cancer Day: An Appeal to End Inequalities in Cancer Prevention and Care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/world-cancer-day-an-appeal-to-end-inequalities-in-cancer-prevention-and-care): Inequalities in cancer prevention and care remain a glaring issue.
- [Corporate Power vs. Social-Ecological Transformation: Why Progress Remains Stalled](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-power-vs-social-ecological-transformation-why-progress-remains-stalled): Fossil fuel giants and entrenched elites block climate action.
- [Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Will America’s “Golden Age” End in an Economic Nightmare?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-tariff-gamble-will-americas-golden-age-end-in-an-economic-nightmare): Trump’s tariff push risks backfiring, threatening U.S. growth, global investment, and the economic stability he promises.
- [Austria’s Radical Lurch: Kickl’s Power Grab Looms](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austrias-radical-lurch-kickls-power-grab-looms): A radical leader edges towards transforming Austria’s democracy, sparking widespread concern.
- [Reaching Net Zero Might Fail—And It’s Not Because Renewables Are Too Expensive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reaching-net-zero-might-fail-and-its-not-because-renewables-are-too-expensive): Solar and wind are now cheaper than fossil fuels, but…
- [How Inequality Fuels the Cosmetic Surgery Boom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-inequality-fuels-the-cosmetic-surgery-boom): Rising inequality drives a global surge in cosmetic procedures.
- [Trump’s Trade Tariffs: Economic Weapon or Self-Inflicted Wound?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-trade-tariffs-economic-weapon-or-self-inflicted-wound): Trump’s sweeping tariffs promise to reshape global trade.
- [Hungary: Safe Haven for Poland’s Corrupt Officials?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungary-safe-haven-for-polands-corrupt-officials): Fugitive Polish officials accused of corruption find asylum in Hungary, raising concerns about EU rule of law.
- [The End of Progess? The Dire Consequences of Trump’s Return](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-progess-the-dire-consequences-of-trumps-return): Trump’s second presidency could derail progress, dismantle Enlightenment values, and reshape global politics for the worse.
- [EU Minimum Wage Directive Before the European Court of Justice: It’s Not All Over Now…](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-minimum-wage-directive-before-the-european-court-of-justice-its-not-all-over-now): EU’s minimum wage directive is under threat.
- [Why Populists Are Winning: The Broken Promise of Liberal Democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-populists-are-winning-the-broken-promise-of-liberal-democracy): As democracy falters, voters turn to populists. Can innovation save democracy from its outdated frameworks?
- [An American Catastrophe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-american-catastrophe): Trump’s second term will devastate democracy, erode global norms, and deepen the consequences of America’s collective folly.
- [Populists Are Taking Over—Here’s Why Democracy Is Failing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populists-are-taking-over-heres-why-democracy-is-failing): Dissatisfied voters and outdated systems fuel populism’s rise. Can bold reforms restore trust in liberal democracy?
- [A Changing Europe: Strategic Autonomy and Security in 2025 and Beyond](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-changing-europe-strategic-autonomy-and-security-in-2025-and-beyond): Strategic autonomy, internal divisions, and external threats: Can the EU adapt and lead in an era of profound change?
- [Britain’s Brexit reality check: Why the majority now want back in](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britains-brexit-reality-check-why-the-majority-now-want-back-in): Every UK poll now shows a majority longing to rejoin the EU – but can Britain overcome its Brexit scars?
- [How to break Europe’s innovation stasis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-break-europes-innovation-stasis): The new EU Commission must confront fragmented policies, revitalise competitiveness, and integrate security into its growth strategy.
- [Europe’s education gamble: Can the EU compete in a changing world?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-education-gamble-can-the-eu-compete-in-a-changing-world): Can Europe’s education and skills agenda tackle declining outcomes and innovation gaps to ensure competitiveness and cohesion?
- [Europe’s Challenge in a New Era of Shift and Shock](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-challenge-in-a-new-era-of-shift-and-shock): The EU faces immense geopolitical and economic challenges in a multipolar world.
- [Belgian workers against austerity and for social justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belgian-workers-against-austerity-and-for-social-justice): Today, on 13th of January 2025, Belgian trade unions demonstrate in Brussels against austerity measures.
- [Britain at a Crossroads: financial turmoil meets political threats](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britain-at-a-crossroads-financial-turmoil-meets-political-threats): Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle.
- [How Europe’s fiscal rules are strangling growth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/stability-or-stagnation-how-europes-fiscal-rules-are-strangling-growth): The 2024 Stability and Growth Pact reforms entrench austerity and stifle investment.
- [Fifty years supporting better policies for a strong social Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fifty-years-supporting-better-policies-for-a-strong-social-europe): The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
- [Austria’s Far-Right Revival: How the ÖVP’s U-Turn is Paving the Way for Radical Leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austrias-far-right-revival-how-the-ovps-u-turn-is-paving-the-way-for-radical-leadership): The Austrian far-right FPÖ’s likely return to government raises concerns about the erosion of liberal democracy.
- [The capacity to ‘compete’—rethinking the welfare state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-capacity-to-compete-rethinking-the-welfare-state): Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social investment.
- [Glimmers of global progress in a crumbling world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/glimmers-of-global-progress-in-a-crumbling-world): Amid crises, breakthroughs at the G20 and UN offer hope for global cooperation and fairness.
- [What to expect from Trump 2.0?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-to-expect-from-trump-2-0): Trump’s return promises bold rhetoric but faces stark economic and global challenges.
- [Europe’s existential test: Navigating Putin, Trump, and the Global South](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-existential-test-navigating-putin-trump-and-the-global-south): How the EU must act to survive mounting global threats.
- [Why DOGE and Musk will fail](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-doge-and-musk-will-fail): Elon Musk’s bid to “reinvent” government through Trump’s advisory DOGE commission will likely be a meme-worthy spectacle.
- [Climate change adaptation means rights for workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-change-adaptation-means-rights-for-workers): Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers.
- [Why the centre-left has to remake democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-centre-left-has-to-remake-democracy): Democrats must offer more than opposition—they need a bold vision for economic and political renewal.
- [Limited options to change employers keep wages low](https://www.socialeurope.eu/limited-options-to-change-employers-keep-wages-low): Concentrated labour markets and non-compete agreements erode worker bargaining power.
- [Progressives Under Pressure: Confronting the Gradual Rise of Authoritarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progressives-under-pressure-confronting-the-gradual-rise-of-authoritarianism): Progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline.
- [The vanishing act of Social Europe: Will it rise again?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-vanishing-act-of-social-europe-will-it-rise-again): Grand promises of a “strong social Europe” have given way to a sidelined agenda.
- [Industrial Policy: Key to Europe’s Role in a Shifting World Order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-key-to-europes-role-in-a-shifting-world-order): Europe can assume a greater role, but must uphold its ambitions and forge new partnerships.
- [Can Europe overcome the radical right to forge a new path?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-europe-overcome-the-radical-right-to-forge-a-new-path): The EU faces mounting pressure to address economic, security, and climate challenges.
- [America’s Loss Will Not Be Europe’s Gain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-loss-will-not-be-europes-gain): Europeans are torn between fearing the vulnerabilities of American decline and seeing in it a chance to assert their own autonomy.
- [Who will guard The Guardian?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-will-guard-the-guardian): A strike at The Guardian exposes a deeper crisis of solidarity and purpose within the liberal left.
- [Australia Bans Kids Under 16 from Social Media in Bold Move Against Big Tech](https://www.socialeurope.eu/australia-bans-kids-under-16-from-social-media-in-bold-move-against-big-tech): Australia’s social media ban for under-16s ignites debate on shielding kids from Big Tech.
- [Can Trump broker peace in Ukraine? History may hold the answers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-trump-broker-peace-in-ukraine-history-may-hold-the-answers): Historical precedents highlight the challenges of finding a sustainable peace.
- [Ukraine: Putin ante Portas and Trump in the White House](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-putin-ante-portas-and-trump-in-the-white-house): As the war grinds on with devastating costs, the path to a ceasefire may lie in difficult compromises.
- [EU pushes to reclassify platform workers, but how will platforms react?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-pushes-to-reclassify-platform-workers-but-how-will-platforms-react): The EU’s Platform Work Directive aims to end worker misclassification, but its success depends on platform compliance.
- [A Vanguard for European Defence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-vanguard-for-european-defence): Rising conflicts and EU aspirations for autonomy revive the call for a European defence force
- [How the EU Can Break Barriers for Disabled Workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-eu-can-break-barriers-for-disabled-workers): Reforming state aid rules could revolutionize the integration of disabled people.
- [How Trump’s Victory Exposes the Failures of Neoliberalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-trumps-victory-exposes-the-failures-of-neoliberalism): After decades of inequality and broken promises, voters chose disruption over progress.
- [Why the Working Class is Turning to the Far Right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-working-class-is-turning-to-the-far-right): Workers feel abandoned by the centre-left. To reclaim their trust, progressives must deliver bold policies and engage directly with their concerns.
- [Can the EU Export Its Values? How ‘Social Europe’ Shapes Global Labour Standards](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-eu-export-its-values-how-social-europe-shapes-global-labour-standards): How the EU’s Social Europe model influences global labour standards through inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
- [Are labour disputes here to stay?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/are-labour-disputes-here-to-stay): Workers across Europe are increasingly dissatisfied with the increased cost of living which is often not matched by their payslips.
- [The End of the Liberal West](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-the-liberal-west): Donald Trump’s reelection marks a critical moment for the global liberal order, forcing Europe to confront its vulnerabilities and redefine its future.
- [From Trump’s Win to Valencia’s Floods: Is Europe’s New Security Focus Putting Social Justice at Risk?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-trumps-win-to-valencias-floods-is-europes-new-security-focus-putting-social-justice-at-risk): A new EU agenda prioritizes security, but at what cost to social justice and climate action?
- [The Ideology of Donald J. Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ideology-of-donald-j-trump): Trump’s ideology blends mercantilism, profit-driven capitalism, anti-immigration stances, and nationalist anti-imperialism.
- [Is online micromanagement a form of cyberbullying?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-online-micromanagement-a-form-of-cyberbullying): As remote work rises, micromanagement can blur into bullying, impacting employee well-being and workplace culture.
- [Why Haven’t Full-Time Workers Cut Hours Since the 1980s?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-havent-full-time-workers-cut-hours-since-the-1980s): Full-time workers in Europe still clock the same hours as in the 1980s.
- [Trump Enters the Lecture Hall: Can Gen Z Save Democracy?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-enters-the-lecture-hall-can-gen-z-save-democracy): With truth under siege, will Generation Z defend democracy or let it fade?
- [The High-Stakes Gamble of Doing Nothing: Why Business Must Act Now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-high-stakes-gamble-of-doing-nothing-why-business-must-act-now): In a world teetering on the edge of chaos, disengagement is a dangerous delusion. Here’s why smart leaders know that stepping up.
- [EU business lobbying on sustainability exposed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-business-lobbying-on-sustainability-exposed): Ongoing debates about Europe’s Green Deal reveal new evidence of business lobbying’s hidden influence on environmental policies.
- [Why Europe’s Migration Crisis Starts in Africa](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europes-migration-crisis-starts-in-africa): Europe can’t solve its migration crisis without tackling Africa’s poverty and instability at the source.
- [Austerity déjà vu: the return of the wrong economic medicine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austerity-deja-vu-the-return-of-the-wrong-economic-medicine): The EU faces a stark choice: invest boldly in a sustainable, competitive future or risk repeating the mistakes of austerity.
- [Why the Democrats Lost Workers – And the Election](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-democrats-lost-workers-and-the-election): The Democrats’ failure to reconnect with American workers cost them the election, leaving the party adrift in a coalition dominated by elites and urban professionals
- [Labour shortages – an opportunity to rebalance bargaining power?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labour-shortages-an-opportunity-to-rebalance-bargaining-power): Labour shortages have become one of the most pressing issues in the labour market across Europe.
- [How the EU should tackle the housing crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-eu-should-tackle-the-housing-crisis): The EU has its first Commissioner for Housing, Dan Jørgensen, but his mission will only succeed if the EU manages to come up with a joined-up approach.
- [Europe’s Shifting Alliances: Can the EU Stand Up to Trump?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-shifting-alliances-can-the-eu-stand-up-to-trump): Trump’s return tests the EU’s unity like never before. Can Europe hold its ground, or will divisions reshape the Union’s future?
- [A diverse regional picture in income disparities across Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-diverse-regional-picture-in-income-disparities-across-europe): After years of being sidelined in the European policy debate as labour markets recovered in the wake of the Great Recession, inequality is back on the agenda.
- [Germany’s Minimum Wage Controversy: Will the EU Directive Be Enforced?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-minimum-wage-controversy-will-the-eu-directive-be-enforced): The EU pushes for a 60 per cent median wage standard—yet Germany resists. What’s at stake for fair wages?
- [Trump Wins Big, Germany’s Coalition Falls—A New Global Order?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trump-wins-big-germanys-coalition-falls-a-new-global-order): As Trump reclaims the White House, Germany’s coalition collapses. Explore how these seismic events signal a shift in global power.
- [Can the EU’s Tariffs on Chinese EVs Save Its Auto Industry?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-eus-tariffs-on-chinese-evs-save-its-auto-industry): EU imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs—but can this safeguard jobs and competitiveness, or must Europe rethink its clean tech strategy?
- [How Trump Won](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-trump-won): Trump’s return to power reveals a fractured America, where defiance of democratic norms and ruthless ambition signal a troubling shift in the nation’s political future.
- [Democracy Derailed: Trump’s Triumph Signals a Dark New Era](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-derailed-trumps-triumph-signals-a-dark-new-era): Trump returns with full power, leaving Democrats and half the nation reeling.
- [Why social investment holds the key to delivering on the Draghi report](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-social-investment-holds-the-key-to-delivering-on-the-draghi-report): A vast untapped potential for improving economic progress and social well-being across the EU needs to be unlocked through social investment.
- [From Left to Right and Beyond: The Strange Migration of Political Mavericks](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-left-to-right-and-beyond-the-strange-migration-of-political-mavericks): Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., and Sahra Wagenknecht are crossing political lines—are they chasing headlines or revealing deeper political divides?
- [Open Letter: Algorithmic Management and the Future of Work in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/open-letter-algorithmic-management-and-the-future-of-work-in-europe): The EU’s new focus on algorithmic management could safeguard workers’ rights in a tech-driven workplace.
- [Nobel Prize in Economics: Do Democracy and Prosperity Really Go Hand in Hand?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nobel-prize-in-economics-do-democracy-and-prosperity-really-go-hand-in-hand): This year’s Nobel laureates link democracy to economic success, but their theory ignores autocratic growth and rehashes old ideas.
- [Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans vs. Harris’ Unity Agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-mass-deportation-plans-vs-harris-unity-agenda-the-stark-choices-facing-america): Trump promises sweeping deportations and attacks on opponents, while Harris advocates for democratic norms and a people-centered agenda.
- [How Europe should prepare for the return of Donald Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-europe-should-prepare-for-the-return-of-donald-trump): With the 2024 US election looming, Europe braces for a potential Trump return, preparing to safeguard stability and democracy.
- [Elections of division: Can unity still win?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/elections-of-division-can-unity-still-win): With 2024’s elections stoking deep divides, societies worldwide are asking if we can still bridge our differences.
- [American democracy at a crossroads: Could history repeat Itself?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/american-democracy-at-a-crossroads-could-history-repeat-itself): As the U.S. faces a pivotal election, parallels with history raise stark questions about the resilience of democratic institutions.
- [Outsourcing our future to for-profit AI](https://www.socialeurope.eu/outsourcing-our-future-to-for-profit-ai): The recent AI Nobel Prize win and California’s vetoed AI safety bill highlight the growing trend of placing our future in the hands of private corporations, with little public accountability.
- [The Gender Divide in America’s Election: Why Working-Class Men Are Flocking to Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-gender-divide-in-americas-election-why-working-class-men-are-flocking-to-trump): The 2024 presidential race reveals a striking gender divide, as working-class men gravitate toward Trump while women favour Harris.
- [Industrial relations, work and climate change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-relations-work-and-climate-change): Addressing the contradiction between economic growth and green transitions requires rethinking industrial relations.
- [How to fight inflation without subsidizing bankers at taxpayer’s expense](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-fight-inflation-without-subsidizing-bankers-at-taxpayers-expense): Central banks are paying billions in interest to commercial banks through remunerated reserves.
- [AI Is Threatening More Than Just Creative Jobs—It’s Undermining Our Humanity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-is-threatening-more-than-just-creative-jobs-its-undermining-our-humanity): The debate on AI and job loss misses the deeper impact: by automating creativity, we risk devaluing the very essence of human expression.
- [No Europe for young men](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-europe-for-young-men): Europe’s democracies are failing their youth as short-sighted policies prioritise the needs of older generations, leaving young people without a voice or a future.
- [Can Universal Basic Income really improve mental health?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-universal-basic-income-really-improve-mental-health-the-surprising-results-are-in): Recent UBI trials reveal that guaranteed income provides immediate mental health relief, but sustaining long-term benefits may depend on lasting economic security.
- [The emotional underpinnings of populism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-emotional-underpinnings-of-populism): Peter A. Hall and Henning Meyer discuss how perceptions of fairness and economic uncertainty have fuelled populism.
- [How Nevada’s union power could decide the 2024 Presidential Election](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-nevadas-union-power-could-decide-the-2024-presidential-election): In Nevada, the Culinary union’s canvassers are racing to swing the vote for Kamala Harris—can they overcome Trump’s growing working-class backing?
- [Draghi’s wake-up call: Will Europe act or snooze?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/draghis-wake-up-call-will-europe-act-or-snooze): Mario Draghi urges deeper integration to tackle Europe’s economic challenges, but will leaders respond in time?
- [An analysis of the new European fiscal rules](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austerity-at-our-doorstep-an-analysis-of-the-new-european-fiscal-rules): EU member states submit fiscal plans, influencing economic stability and public debt for years to come.
- [Is Europe losing the innovation race?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-europe-losing-the-innovation-race): Europe faces the challenge of fostering an innovation-driven economy to compete globally and lead in technological advancements.
- [What Austria’s election teaches us about the far right’s rise and migration fears](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-austrias-election-teaches-us-about-the-far-rights-rise-and-migration-fears): Austria’s election results highlight key lessons on the far right’s enduring appeal.
- [Far-Right wins in Austria and Germany: what mainstream parties keep getting wrong](https://www.socialeurope.eu/far-right-wins-in-austria-and-germany-what-mainstream-parties-keep-getting-wrong): Recent far-right victories in Europe reveal the dangerous effects of mainstreaming extremist views and the urgent need for a new political strategy.
- [The EU’s ‘People, Skills, Preparedness’ agenda: A risky shift in social policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eus-people-skills-preparedness-agenda-a-risky-shift-in-social-policy): The EU’s ‘People, Skills, Preparedness’ shift signals a move toward individual responsibility and crisis management in social policy.
- [Rust Belt battle: Harris fights to stop Trump and save democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rust-belt-battle-harris-fights-to-stop-trump-and-save-democracy): With the Rust Belt up for grabs, Kamala Harris faces a last-minute fight to stop Trump and protect the future of American democracy.
- [Amazon’s office mandate: The hidden power play behind workplace control](https://www.socialeurope.eu/amazons-office-mandate-the-hidden-power-play-behind-workplace-control): Amazon’s office mandate exposes workplace power dynamics and the need to rethink employer control.
- [Putin’s dangerous power play: How a century-old Russian strategy threatens the west](https://www.socialeurope.eu/putins-dangerous-power-play-how-a-century-old-russian-strategy-threatens-the-west): How Putin’s Quest for Power Revives Russia’s Century-Old Threat to the West.
- [Why the Draghi Report on EU markets matters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-draghi-report-on-eu-markets-matters): Can Europe overcome its capital market flaws and catch up to the US? The Draghi Report sounds a critical alarm for the EU’s future.
- [Far-Right surge in Austria: Is Europe headed for an authoritarian wave?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/far-right-surge-in-austria-is-europe-headed-for-an-authoritarian-wave): Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has surged to dominance in national elections, with major implications for democracy and political stability.
- [Making Europe weak again](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-europe-weak-again): As the US election looms, Europe’s far-right surge threatens its democratic stability and unity amid rising global challenges.
- [How Trump’s energy policies could set America back decades](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-trumps-energy-policies-could-set-america-back-decades): Just as Donald Trump’s overall economic strategy is based on nostalgia for a bygone era, his fossil-fuel-centered energy policies would represent a quixotic attempt to reverse history.
- [Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inequalities-unmasked-disparities-across-the-eu): What should Europe do about inequality? The start is to recognise some of its citizens are more equal than others.
- [Enhancing gender equality to counter the backlash](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enhancing-gender-equality-to-counter-the-backlash): The new chair of the European Parliament’s FEMM committee sets an agenda on gender for this five-year term.
- [The ‘union of equality’ requires leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-union-of-equality-requires-leadership): If gender equality is not to fall down the European Commission’s priorities, its president must take the lead.
- [The canker among Europe’s roses](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-canker-among-europes-roses): Europe’s love for flowers, Ankita Anand writes, ignores their often tainted roots.
- [Draghi on ‘competitiveness’: new wine in an old bottle](https://www.socialeurope.eu/draghi-on-competitiveness-new-wine-in-an-old-bottle): The Draghi report contains some useful proposals but fails to match up to the challenges the European Union is facing.
- [Renewables and agriculture—friends, not foes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/renewables-and-agriculture-friends-not-foes): There is enough land in Europe for wholly renewable energy without compromising nature protection or food production.
- [The case for a global climate assembly](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-case-for-a-global-climate-assembly): Only a minority of respondents in recent surveys trust their governments to achieve a just transition.
- [‘Better regulation’? Capital first, society second](https://www.socialeurope.eu/better-regulation-capital-first-society-second): EU policies on better law-making are tipping the scales in favour of businesses, marginalising social and environmental concerns.
- [Draghi, Putin and economic warfare in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/draghi-putin-and-economic-warfare-in-europe): It has yet to dawn on Europe’s leaders, Paul Mason writes, that the whole continent is implicated in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
- [Criminalising climate protest while ignoring the crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/criminalising-climate-protest-while-ignoring-the-crisis): The scales of justice are tilted against peaceful protesters—while those responsible for the crisis act with impunity.
- [Ireland, the EU and the Apple tax case](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ireland-the-eu-and-the-apple-tax-case): Ireland led the ‘race to the bottom’ on corporate taxation. The tide is beginning to turn.
- [Germany’s border controls—wrecking EU solidarity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-border-controls-wrecking-eu-solidarity): Europe must fast-track the Pact on Migration and Asylum to prevent chaos.
- [Saving the planet from plastics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/saving-the-planet-from-plastics): If corporate interests undermine efforts to reduce plastic manufacturing, they will derail the fight against climate change.
- [Incentives in reverse: returning Ukrainian refugees](https://www.socialeurope.eu/incentives-in-reverse-returning-ukrainian-refugees): Controversial proposals addressed to Ukrainian refugees may perversely only keep them in exile.
- [Trust in crisis: Europe’s social contract under threat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trust-in-crisis-europes-social-contract-under-threat): The corrosion of trust underlies many of the social pathologies of today—but there are solutions.
- [Europe’s great tax divide](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-great-tax-divide): Hard-pressed Europeans bear most of the tax-raising brunt, while the wealthy get away very lightly.
- [The Summit of the Future—committing to action](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-summit-of-the-future-committing-to-action): Ireland’s president sends a message to fellow heads of state and government as they ready for New York.
- [After the Laffer curve: taxing the rich, at last](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-laffer-curve-taxing-the-rich-at-last): It’s time finally to jettison the convenient claim that taxing the rich more would only reduce tax revenue.
- [Draghi report: a social agenda is lacking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/draghi-report-a-social-agenda-is-lacking): The report on European ‘competitiveness’ is good on industrial strategy but poor from a social perspective.
- [Between the cracks: third-country posted workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/between-the-cracks-third-country-posted-workers): Effective transnational co-operation is required to protect third-country posted workers from abuses.
- [Sub-minimum wages: young people, old attitudes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sub-minimum-wages-young-people-old-attitudes): Laggard European Union member states must act to ensure abolition of sub-minimum rates of pay.
- [In difficult times, social cohesion has improved](https://www.socialeurope.eu/in-difficult-times-social-cohesion-has-improved): Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
- [At Italy’s dark heart: the weak rule of law](https://www.socialeurope.eu/at-italys-dark-heart-the-weak-rule-of-law): Giorgia Meloni’s government is squandering a golden opportunity to reverse Italy’s economic decline.
- [The ascendant far right: the lust for cruelty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ascendant-far-right-the-lust-for-cruelty): After the elections in eastern-German Länder and ahead of those in Austria, Robert Misik casts an unsentimental eye on far-right voters.
- [Reclaiming time from its tyranny](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reclaiming-time-from-its-tyranny): We are running out of time on the climate crisis—yet ‘slow living’ is a key to its solution.
- [Kant, Einstein and ‘perpetual peace’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/kant-einstein-and-perpetual-peace): In today’s runaway world, Einstein’s ideal of ‘abolishing war’ becomes unavoidable rather than impractical.
- [Adapting workplaces to climate change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/adapting-workplaces-to-climate-change): To sustain healthy and safe conditions at work, unprecedented action is urgently needed.
- [Housing cracks: multi-pronged approach required](https://www.socialeurope.eu/housing-cracks-multi-pronged-approach-required): Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.
- [EU climate ambition: ensuring it is lawful](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-climate-ambition-ensuring-it-is-lawful): NGOs have increasingly looked to the courts for action on climate change. Now the Court of Justice of the EU is the focus.
- [What should Labour aim for in Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-should-labour-aim-for-in-europe): The new government’s goals are modest. But economic reality may force it to follow changing public opinion.
- [Capital-markets union: a panacea for Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capital-markets-union-a-panacea-for-europe): Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.
- [Gaza: a war against press freedom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gaza-a-war-against-press-freedom): Europe must not turn its eyes away from the huge death toll of journalists in Gaza.
- [Taxing the super-rich—more possible than ever](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-the-super-rich-more-possible-than-ever): The concentration of wealth is a global issue and it is getting worse.
- [Europe’s social agenda: raising the game](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-social-agenda-raising-the-game): The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU has set the social-policy ambition for the next European Commission to follow.
- [Fossil-fuel power in Europe: the only way is down](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fossil-fuel-power-in-europe-the-only-way-is-down): For the first time, in the first half of this year wind and solar generated more electricity in the European Union.
- [Developing tax rules for a globalised world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/developing-tax-rules-for-a-globalised-world): The European Union can be the biggest winner from the United Nations tax convention.
- [‘Offshoring’ asylum—time to reject a disastrous model](https://www.socialeurope.eu/offshoring-asylum-time-to-reject-a-disastrous-model): Ignoring the law and the cost of these risky experiments would set the new European Commission on a dangerous path.
- [The invisible victims of the climate crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-invisible-victims-of-the-climate-crisis): It is time to open a discussion on Europe’s role in the protection of climate refugees.
- [Running towards inclusion: the power of sports](https://www.socialeurope.eu/running-towards-inclusion-the-power-of-sports): The Paralympics highlight the need for year-round activity to include people with disabilities in sports.
- [European Social Charter: France’s ‘overseas’ gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-charter-frances-overseas-gap): Millions of European citizens are denied the social-rights protection offered by the European Social Charter.
- [The conflicting missions of Viktor Orbán](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-conflicting-missions-of-viktor-orban): The Hungarian premier’s alignment with Putin’s Russia sits increasingly uneasily with his domestic and European political ambitions.
- [Neoliberalism is blocking green growth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/neoliberalism-is-blocking-green-growth): Climate change is a global challenge, yet trade rules do not allow developing countries to break with neoliberal orthodoxy.
- [The Tesla dispute: a new frontier?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-tesla-dispute-a-new-frontier): In the face of a prolonged strike for union recognition, Tesla has turned posted workers into strike-breakers.
- [Social dialogue: defending democracy in practice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-defending-democracy-in-practice): In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.
- [Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-europe-against-all-odds-but-is-it-enough): Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.
- [Reality bites: the incursion of the real into post-politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reality-bites-the-incursion-of-the-real-into-post-politics): The crisis of neoliberalism and war in Europe have left all that was solid melting into air.
- [How Big Oil gaslights Europe on climate policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-big-oil-gaslights-europe-on-climate-policy): In the race against climate catastrophe, decades-old fossil-fuel-industry narratives retard the green transition.
- [Pornography, patriarchy and the western Balkans](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pornography-patriarchy-and-the-western-balkans): Revenge pornography is rife in the western Balkans. Ahead of EU accession, abuse laws need radical reform.
- [Labour’s labour agenda—and a European reset](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labours-labour-agenda-resetting-relations-with-europe): A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
- [Development: better days could lie ahead (yes, really)](https://www.socialeurope.eu/development-better-days-could-lie-ahead-yes-really): Overwhelmed by the ‘polycrisis’, it is easy to miss some positive indicators of global development.
- [What Labour needs to succeed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-labour-needs-to-succeed): Labour’s mission-oriented industrial strategy for the UK requires a restructuring of how government operates.
- [The young generation needs quality traineeships](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-young-generation-needs-quality-traineeships): The proposed directive regulating traineeships must push the envelope on European Union social policy.
- [Rebuilding trust in democracy in Moldova](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rebuilding-trust-in-democracy-in-moldova): Moldova’s political leadership is more focused on suppressing dissent than tackling public concerns.
- [Rising tides, sinking boats: growth, climate and justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rising-tides-sinking-boats-growth-climate-and-justice): Growth is falling, its rewards are ill-shared and it is bursting planetary boundaries. Time for a rethink.
- [Ostrich politics and its alternatives](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ostrich-politics-and-its-alternatives): In lieu of comforting, self-righteous myths, Eszter Kováts argues, progressives should take the ‘anti-woke’ challenge seriously.
- [Why it seems east Germany is everywhere](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-it-seems-east-germany-is-everywhere): A transnational perspective is needed to curb nationalistic populism and bring Europeans closer.
- [Relocations—tilting the capital-labour balance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/relocations-tilting-the-capital-labour-balance): Public assistance for firms must be rendered conditional on constraints on their freedom to move elsewhere.
- [The assault on labour rights in Finland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-assault-on-labour-rights-in-finland): The right-wing government and employers have represented the reforms as in line with the ‘Nordic model’ they seek to dismantle.
- [Tax on billionaires—political vaccine against the far right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tax-on-billionaires-political-vaccine-against-the-far-right): Real solutions to the crises fuelling the far right needs demand public investment. The super-rich must pay their share.
- [Climate capabilities: realising the green transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-capabilities-realising-the-green-transition): People are not unaware of climate change, Lisa Pelling writes. But they find it difficult to imagine the green transition.
- [The future of work: getting ready for tomorrow today](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-work-getting-ready-for-tomorrow-today): There is no single future for the world of work—and it is up to policy-makers to shape it.
- [Social rights—securing Europe’s future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-securing-europes-future): In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.
- [Pensions in Switzerland: how a rise was won](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pensions-in-switzerland-how-a-rise-was-won): Swiss workers face a better retirement outlook thanks to a successful trade-union initiative.
- [Agriculture emissions: Danes not following the herd](https://www.socialeurope.eu/agriculture-emissions-danes-not-following-the-herd): Denmark’s tax on greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture is a reason for hope—but not complacency.
- [Breaking the chains: subcontracting in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/breaking-the-chains-subcontracting-in-the-eu): Legislation is needed to limit the length of subcontracting chains.
- [How to puncture the populist right in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-puncture-the-populist-right-in-europe): The far right’s national-populist narrative has gone largely unchallenged—despite its utter incoherence.
- [George Orwell and Europe’s new normal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/george-orwell-and-europes-new-normal): Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has won the electoral first round in France. Welcome to a Europe Orwell would have recognised.
- [After the Euro-elections: a trade-union agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-euro-elections-a-trade-union-agenda): Good jobs and responsible investments are essential among the EU’s new political priorities.
- [Leaving the Energy Charter Treaty—it’s not so easy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/leaving-the-energy-charter-treaty-its-not-so-easy): The European Union has given notice of its withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty. There is still much to do.
- [European Social Charter—political will needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-charter-political-will-needed): Robust enforcement of the European Social Charter is key to strengthening workers’ and trade-union rights across Europe.
- [Social rights in Europe—in need of a new impulse?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-in-europe-in-need-of-a-new-impulse): The backdrop to the European Social Charter is the historical relationship between peace and social justice.
- [Ukraine: Putin’s ‘reality’ … and the real world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-putins-reality-and-the-real-world): A proposal for a ceasefire from Ukraine would not only stem the bloodshed but allow it to win the peace.
- [Italy: a ‘post-fascist’ assault on democratic checks](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italy-a-post-fascist-assault-on-democratic-checks): The Meloni government in Italy is betting everything on radical and polarising constitutional reforms.
- [The European visa system—a barrier to ideas exchange](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-visa-system-a-barrier-to-ideas-exchange): Visa rules need an overhaul to facilitate global co-operation in a runaway world, Ankita Anand writes.
- [Will states support corporate capture of the future?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-states-endorse-corporate-capture-of-the-future): The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.
- [France, Europe and another election](https://www.socialeurope.eu/france-europe-and-another-election): French voters may have been recalled for a snap domestic election—but the underlying trends have been decades in the making.
- [European Social Charter: more relevant than ever](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-charter-more-relevant-than-ever): The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.
- [Another, reindustrialised Europe is possible](https://www.socialeurope.eu/another-reindustrialised-europe-is-possible): The far right offers no answers to the challenges Europe faces in reinvigorating its industry amid the digital and green transitions.
- [After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-russia-europe-must-wake-up-to-china-too): Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party.
- [American business will regret writing off democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/american-business-will-regret-writing-off-democracy): By endorsing Donald Trump’s run for the US presidency, business leaders are embracing a man with only contempt for the law.
- [European elections: political squalls ahead](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-elections-political-squalls-ahead): The shift in the centre of gravity of the European Parliament could make for a fractious next term.
- [Euro-elections demand progress, not prevarication](https://www.socialeurope.eu/euro-elections-demand-progress-not-prevarication): The far-right challenge in the European elections was overblown. Just transition, rather than rowing back, is the answer.
- [Cleaners come out from the shadows to mobilise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cleaners-come-out-from-the-shadows-to-mobilise): After the European Parliament elections, cleaners’ fight for justice goes into the next round.
- [Myanmar: award for exiled trade-union leader](https://www.socialeurope.eu/myanmar-award-for-exiled-trade-union-leader): This is the author’s acceptance speech, receiving the Arthur Svensson Prize to promote trade-union rights in Oslo.
- [Europe: world leader in eroding workers’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-world-leader-in-eroding-workers-rights): Workers’ rights, fundamental to democracy, are under attack across the world—nowhere more so than in Europe.
- [Fossil-fuel subsidies: a litany of broken promises](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-litany-of-broken-promises): While pledged to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies by 2025, EU member states are spending more than at any point since 2015.
- [Heat stress at work—a political emergency](https://www.socialeurope.eu/heat-stress-at-work-a-political-emergency): Climate change is creating new risks, requiring a minimum protective threshold for all workers in Europe.
- [EPOCH-making?—the tool to end homelessness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/epoch-making-the-tool-to-end-homelessness): The European Union is committed to ending homelessness by 2030. It will come down to political will.
- [The European elections: the right lessons to learn](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-elections-the-right-lessons-to-learn): There remains a democratic majority in the European Parliament to tackle the economic and social insecurity fuelling populism.
- [What the Indian election result means for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-does-the-indian-election-result-mean-for-europe): The jolt for Narendra Modi, Jayati Ghosh writes, should also make western leaders look in the mirror.
- [The 1.5C target for global heating must prevail](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-1-5c-target-for-global-heating-must-prevail): Even if we overshoot the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Agreement, we must return to it as quickly as possible.
- [Twenty-four points for social democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/twenty-four-points-for-social-democracy): Anchored in classical social-democratic politics, the SPÖ’s vision for Austria offers signposts for the European political family.
- [Will the young save Europe from the rise of the far right?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-the-young-save-europe-from-the-rise-of-the-far-right): A generation defined by economic insecurity is grabbing for a guardrail, not engaging for emancipation.
- [European elections: beware the ‘little man’ sorcerers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-elections-beware-the-little-man-sorcerers): European workers enjoy more social support than five years ago but the far right and strict austerity are looming threats.
- [Reinvigorating the European Social Charter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reinvigorating-the-european-social-charter): Council of Europe member states need to enhance their commitments to social and economic rights.
- [European elections: ghosts of the past](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-elections-ghosts-of-the-past): The elections might see not only gains for the right-wing populists but also, Robert Misik warns, a relapse into austerity.
- [Homecare and domestic workers deserve better](https://www.socialeurope.eu/homecare-and-domestic-workers-deserve-better): A survey shows an alarming malaise in a sector heavily dominated by women and migrant workers.
- [Sustainable Development Goals: time for a rethink](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sustainable-development-goals-time-for-a-rethink): A political reconceptualisation is critical if humanity’s hope for a sustainable global future is to be rescued.
- [Georgia: solidarity from the EU is crucial](https://www.socialeurope.eu/georgia-solidarity-from-the-eu-is-crucial): Georgia’s law against ‘foreign influence’, pushed through the parliament, embodies Russia’s tool against freedom in the region.
- [Social dialogue: urgent to turn words into deeds](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-urgent-to-turn-words-into-deeds): EU instruments encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining are very valuable—but not if employers can walk away.
- [Sufficiency: towards an eco-social economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/provisioning-for-sufficiency-towards-an-eco-social-economy): The only exit from the ‘polycrisis’ is a corridor of sufficiency between meeting need and avoiding excess.
- [Playing games with children’s health](https://www.socialeurope.eu/playing-games-with-childrens-health): Rejecting bans on particularly hazardous chemicals, EU ministers have sought to dilute revised legislation on toy safety.
- [The European Investment Bank’s roadmap … to 2008](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-investment-banks-roadmap-to-2008): The EIB proposes that housing renovation and energy efficiency be financed via ‘securitised’ loans.
- [The ‘billions to trillions’ charade](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-billions-to-trillions-charade): Multilateral development banks believe private investment can meet developing economies’ climate and development needs.
- [Is Europe too big for further enlargement?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-europe-too-big-for-further-enlargement): EU institutions are struggling to chart a vision for 27 member states, so how can they accommodate as many as 36?
- [Can a divided EU woo diverse emerging powers?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-a-divided-eu-woo-diverse-emerging-powers): If the European Union is to win allies in the ‘global south’, the first thing it should do is stop talking about the ‘global south’.
- [Longing of the new working class for a solidary ‘we’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-longing-of-the-new-working-class-for-a-solidary-we): A German study finds the new working class lacking in class consciousness yet strongly aware of social inequalities.
- [Europe and the ‘global south’ must join forces](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-and-the-global-south-must-join-forces): Amid the confrontation between the United States and China, a reconstructed multilateralism can rein in the great powers.
- [Time for supply-side policy: Thatcher versus Schumpeter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-for-supply-side-policy-thatcher-versus-schumpeter): Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.
- [Russia’s battle of the ministries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russias-battle-of-the-ministries): Powerful groups seem increasingly willing to break the unspoken rule against public infighting. This does not bode well for Putin’s regime.
- [A new Green Deal: Europe’s defining impulse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-green-deal-europes-defining-impulse): Far from the European Green Deal being exhausted, it needs renewing with social ambition.
- [No ‘business as usual’ for European industry](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-business-as-usual-for-european-industry): The choices EU leaders make in the coming years will determine whether European industry has a long-term future.
- [Workers’ rights—a casualty of the war in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workers-rights-a-casualty-of-the-war-in-ukraine): The war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s trade union movement—and the lives of workers.
- [A new European social contract must be green](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-european-social-contract-must-be-green): Civil society stands up for a European pact for the future—green, social and fit for a one-planet economy.
- [How to close the gender wage gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-close-the-gender-wage-gap): Iceland owes its progress in narrowing the gender wage gap to a decades-long equal-rights movement and public policies.
- [How to combat economic nationalism in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-combat-economic-nationalism-in-europe): The Letta report on the single market should spur a renewal of supranationalism in the European Union.
- [Delivering on social protection for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/delivering-on-social-protection-for-all): Despite the European Pillar of Social Rights, social protection remains patchy for atypical and self-employed workers.
- [Housing crisis: Europe cannot afford it](https://www.socialeurope.eu/housing-crisis-europe-cannot-afford-it): Housing may not be an EU competence but the growing affordability crisis across the union demands attention.
- [Russia, disinformation and Europe’s battle for truth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russia-disinformation-and-europes-battle-for-truth): The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, says he agrees with Vladimir Lenin except on ‘self-determination’. That includes propaganda.
- [Persons with disabilities: removing the barriers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/persons-with-disabilities-removing-the-barriers): As the European Parliament election looms, it’s time for action on disability policies, not pity.
- [What is the ‘free’ in ‘Palestine should be free’?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-is-the-free-in-palestine-should-be-free): The left has often been embarrassed by association with ‘liberation’ movements which became custodians of authoritarian states.
- [European election: defence and a European constitution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-election-defence-and-a-european-constitution): Europe’s electoral contestants must address the pressing need for a defence union and a democratic constitution.
- [Mining for critical materials cannot undermine trust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mining-for-critical-materials-cannot-undermine-trust): The climate transition must benefit local communities, Lisa Pelling writes, if it is not to exhaust their patience.
- [Ten reasons to vote in the European elections](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ten-reasons-to-vote-in-the-european-elections): The EU has achieved much in the last term and faces big challenges in the next. Its citizens can set the priorities in June.
- [Not done yet—applying the minimum-wages directive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/not-done-yet-applying-the-minimum-wages-directive): The directive has already changed the landscape on setting minimum wages and extending collective bargaining.
- [Violence against women: ‘tradition’ confronts Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/violence-against-women-tradition-confronts-europe): The European Commission recently proposed that EU accession negotiations be opened with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- [Mayday, mayday: democracy in peril](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mayday-mayday-democracy-in-peril): This May Day, trade unions must be at the centre of defending and rebuilding democracy.
- [Codetermination in Spain: chronicle of a death foretold?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/codetermination-in-spain-chronicle-of-a-death-foretold): A failed initiative to advance democracy at work nevertheless contains lessons for how to pursue the cause.
- [Europe cannot ‘compete’ with old economics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-cannot-compete-with-old-economics): Mario Draghi’s report needs to address competitiveness from a systemic perspective, focusing on underlying productivity.
- [Is the world getting out of control?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-the-world-getting-out-of-control): A world in turmoil, Jan Zielonka writes, needs a democratic Europe, with a new social contract, offering hope to the helpless.
- [Democracy must set the standard](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-must-set-the-standard): Standardisation of how artificial intelligence is deployed in the workplace is not a technical but a political matter.
- [UK’s Rwanda bill is doomed for political failure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/uks-rwanda-bill-is-doomed-for-political-failure): Not only does such a policy not work to deter migration—it will politically damage any party that adopts it.
- [Decarbonising housing fairly: a sufficiency approach](https://www.socialeurope.eu/decarbonising-housing-fairly-a-sufficiency-approach): Housing is a huge source of carbon emissions. But decarbonising it effectively requires a sufficiency lens.
- [Rethinking the battle against homelessness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rethinking-the-battle-against-homelessness): Eradicating homelessness starts with seeing beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to homeless people.
- [New EU ‘own resources’ needed for new challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/new-eu-own-resources-needed-for-new-challenges): The EU budget is too small and too based on member-state contributions, fostering a short-sighted mentality.
- [Misunderstanding Hungary’s ‘anti-colonial’ turn](https://www.socialeurope.eu/misunderstanding-hungarys-anti-colonial-turn): Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán’s narrative of railing against ‘Brussels’.
- [Karl Polanyi against the ‘free market’ dystopia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/karl-polanyi-against-the-free-market-dystopia): Sixty years on from Polanyi’s death and 80 since his classic text appeared, it is time to reassess the Hungarian social scientist’s legacy.
- [Corporate sustainability due diligence—the time is now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-the-time-is-now): After protracted battles, a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence is finally ready for endorsement.
- [On a plane with Nicolas Schmit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-a-plane-with-nicolas-schmit): The lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists sets out his political stall for the European Parliament elections in June.
- [Progressives must say ‘no’ to austerity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progressives-must-say-no-to-austerity): This week MEPs vote on the revised EU economic-governance framework. The stakes could not be higher.
- [Social democracy: its history and its future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democracy-its-history-and-its-future): Political scientist Eunice Goes explains the vicissitudes of social democracy historically and addresses its contemporary challenges.
- [European elections: a call for accessibility](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-elections-a-call-for-accessibility): More is needed for visually impaired voters—and candidates—to exercise their political rights.
- [Migrant labour in the ‘gig’ economy: progress or trap?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/migrant-labour-in-the-gig-economy-progress-or-trap): Platform work is often presented as a stepping-stone for migrant workers. It may not however feel so benign to them.
- [When less is more: reducing Europe’s material footprint](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-less-is-more-reducing-europes-material-footprint): Beyond cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, the key to a sustainable planet lies in resource management.
- [Sex trafficking in Romania and Moldova](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sex-trafficking-in-romania-and-moldova): The charges faced in Romania by a high-profile ‘influencer’ highlight how the region has become a hub for sex trafficking.
- [Time for a European industrial strategy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-for-a-european-industrial-strategy): The next phase of the European Green Deal can be centred on a European industrial strategy.
- [Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-defence-industrial-strategy-beyond-the-rhetoric): Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.
- [EU leaders may miss a rendezvous with history](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-leaders-may-miss-a-rendezvous-with-history): The emerging strategic agenda for the next EU mandate reveals an ecological step backwards Europe cannot afford to take.
- [Stepping up the EU agenda on social citizenship](https://www.socialeurope.eu/stepping-up-the-eu-agenda-on-social-citizenship): In a more precarious Europe, social protection and minimum-income guarantees must be more strongly embedded.
- [Will Boeing crash ‘shareholder value’?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-boeing-crash-shareholder-value): Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.
- [Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/frontex-a-public-agency-incapable-of-accountability): As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
- [Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-europe-needs-a-new-concept-of-worker): The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.
- [Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wage-inequality-in-europe-and-why-it-is-falling): Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.
- [Rethinking universalism and social rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rethinking-universalism-and-social-rights): Social rights in Europe today require marrying 20th-century universalism with the meeting of diverse, complex needs.
- [Beyond the ‘backlash’: the green electoral agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-the-backlash-the-green-electoral-agenda): Voters want a just transition and more, not less, green investment ahead of the European elections.
- [EU trade policy in troubled times](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-trade-policy-in-troubled-times): Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.
- [The double life of the Indian economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-double-life-of-the-indian-economy): Narendra Modi aims to return to power, Jayati Ghosh writes, against a backdrop of unprecedented inequality.
- [The world’s moral failure in Gaza](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-worlds-moral-failure-in-gaza): The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.
- [Danger: hazardous medicinal products at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/danger-hazardous-medicinal-products-at-work): Healthcare workers will be protected from hazardous drugs by an EU law which had to be transposed by member states by today.
- [Protecting EU health policy from tobacco lobbying](https://www.socialeurope.eu/protecting-eu-health-policy-from-tobacco-lobbying): The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.
- [Defending the rule of law in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/defending-the-rule-of-law-in-the-eu): The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.
- [Grids risk holding back Europe’s energy transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/grids-risk-holding-back-europes-energy-transition): Europe must revise outdated grid plans to prepare for surging deployment of wind and solar power.
- [Honesty needed to save just transition in EP elections](https://www.socialeurope.eu/honesty-needed-to-save-just-transition-in-ep-elections): Unless the political dial can be turned, this year’s European Parliament elections will put the environment on the line.
- [The case for a radical, liberal left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-case-for-a-radical-liberal-left): We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.
- [Socialist hegemony: construction time again](https://www.socialeurope.eu/socialist-hegemony-construction-time-again): Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.
- [Platform work directive—delivering rights for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platform-work-directive-delivering-rights-for-all): Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.
- [Women at work: doing different jobs, still unequal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/women-at-work-doing-different-jobs-still-unequal): Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.
- [The missing migrants: myriad preventable deaths](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-missing-migrants-myriad-preventable-deaths): People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.
- [Women leaders in CSOs—overworked, overwhelmed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/women-leaders-in-csos-overworked-overwhelmed): Fundamental change is needed as many women near burnout, amid mounting social challenges and work-life imbalance.
- [No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-gala-for-gas-annual-jamboree-postponed): The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
- [Universal basic services: road to a just transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/universal-basic-services-road-to-a-just-transition): Meeting social needs within planetary boundaries is the alternative to the religion of growth and the populist backlash.
- [Hungary’s unedifying political wordplays](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarys-unedifying-political-wordplays): The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.
- [Establishing safe staffing in health and social care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/establishing-safe-staffing-in-health-and-social-care): Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.
- [Gaza: UN humanitarian intervention needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gaza-un-humanitarian-intervention-needed): Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.
- [How to treat German democracy’s malaise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-treat-german-democracys-malaise): The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.
- [Living conditions: Germany outperforms the US](https://www.socialeurope.eu/living-conditions-how-germany-outperforms-the-us): Gross domestic product is often presented as encapsulating US success. But on broader benchmarks Germany performs better.
- [Beyond just transition—ecology at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-just-transition-ecology-at-work): The economic transformation required by ecological crises implies new capabilities for workers to develop alternative plans.
- [Renewing the welfare state, Europe’s green trump card](https://www.socialeurope.eu/renewing-the-welfare-state-europes-green-trump-card): The untapped potential of European welfare states must be unleashed in light of the climate emergency.
- [Reset finance: a new financial agenda for the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reset-finance-a-new-financial-agenda-for-the-eu): In the next mandate, the EU needs to set clear rules for private investment in the green transition, to avoid past mistakes.
- [Renovating buildings while leaving no one behind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/renovating-buildings-while-leaving-no-one-behind): Europe has a leaky buildings stock but the revised directive on their energy performance will still leave some in the cold.
- [Protecting EP employees from harassment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/protecting-ep-employees-from-harassment): The European Parliament should be setting the gold standard in ensuring the wellbeing of its staff.
- [ECB: now is the time for normalisation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecb-and-inflation-a-general-fighting-the-last-war): Europe needs massive investment, Peter Bofinger writes. Yet the ECB’s restrictive monetary stance means it is set to fall this year.
- [‘Gig’ workers in Europe: the new platform of rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gig-workers-in-europe-the-new-platform-of-rights): A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.
- [When too few employers means too low wages](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-too-few-employers-means-too-low-wages): Collective bargaining can redress the vulnerability of workers who find themselves in a buyers’ labour market.
- [Industrial policy and Europe’s just transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-and-europes-just-transition): Europe’s re-engagement with industrial policy needs to address its social as well as environmental dimensions.
- [Devising devices with accessibility in mind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/devising-devices-with-accessibility-in-mind): ‘Baking’ accessibility into the household can make the day brighter for everyone.
- [From ‘crisis’ to ‘pandemic’: mental health in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-crisis-to-pandemic-mental-health-in-europe): Mental health cannot be ignored in the forthcoming European election campaign, given the scale of the problem.
- [Intellectual disability: escaping from neglect](https://www.socialeurope.eu/intellectual-disability-escaping-from-neglect): Europe needs to see itself through the eyes of the millions of Europeans with intellectual disabilities—and act accordingly.
- [Why Trump can’t win in November](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-trump-cant-win-in-november): Since Donald Trump incited an insurrection, he has moderated neither his rhetoric nor behaviour—both have become more extreme.
- [A socio-ecological contract for a Europe in transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-socio-ecological-contract-for-a-europe-in-transition): The decarbonisation of Europe must be accelerated—which requires a new European social model.
- [Far right against women workers’ rights in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/far-right-against-women-workers-rights-in-europe): They will claim to stand up for ‘the people’ in the June elections. But the extreme right only stamps on women’s rights.
- [Taxing the super-rich: a tool to close the gender gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-the-super-rich-a-tool-to-close-the-gender-gap): If gender equality is to be more than an International Women’s Day gesture, revenue must be raised for massive investment.
- [Democracy at work and in society: populist antidote](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-at-work-and-in-society-populist-antidote): Trade unions and other civil-society organisations are key to fending off the threat from the far right.
- [Standing up for journalism as a public good](https://www.socialeurope.eu/standing-up-for-journalism-as-a-public-good): it is a truism to say democracy relies on a free press. But in a sea of misinformation that is because it’s a fact.
- [Insecure Europe—a job guarantee needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/insecure-europe-a-job-guarantee-needed): A job guarantee would not only eliminate long-term unemployment but also buttress the European Union.
- [Amid anomie and rentier rule, a European left in crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/amid-anomie-and-rentier-rule-a-european-left-in-crisis): The left has gone along with a shift of power to boardrooms and bureaucracies, undermining policy ambition and public confidence.
- [Algorithmic management—a codetermination challenge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/algorithmic-management-a-codetermination-challenge): After the debacle of the platform-work directive, will the EU still regulate artificial intelligence in the workplace?
- [Robots in social care: the human touch at risk](https://www.socialeurope.eu/robots-in-social-care-the-human-touch-at-risk): ‘Carebots’ are the mooted solution to the ageing crisis and staff shortages—but empathy and compassion are irreplaceable.
- [Saving the planet means saving the world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/saving-the-planet-means-saving-the-world): Inequality and the climate crisis go hand in hand, Lisa Pelling writes. So do the alternatives.
- [Why cautious monetary policy is a risky business](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-cautious-monetary-policy-is-a-risky-business): By sustaining high interest rates, purportedly to slay inflation, central banks are risking an unnecessary recession.
- [Gaza: Europe’s failure of moral leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gaza-europes-failure-of-moral-leadership): Israel’s demolition of Gaza will haunt Europe’s conscience for generations to come and imperil the claims of the democratic world.
- [Shock therapy killed Navalny](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shock-therapy-killed-navalny): While Vladimir Putin’s role is all but undeniable, there is a silent accomplice whose part in this tragedy must not be ignored.
- [Digitalisation and job quality—the evidence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/digitalisation-and-job-quality-the-evidence): The impact of digitalisation on work is uneven—but more positive where workers are protected by institutional arrangements.
- [Sharing the technology wealth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sharing-the-technology-wealth): Big Tech firms flagrantly disregard the implicit social contract—the time has come to curb their market power.
- [Europe’s next term: time for boldness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-next-term-time-for-boldness): Progressive leaders must confront the far-right nationalists with the reality that Europe needs more integration, not less.
- [The assault on the skies by the far right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-assault-on-the-skies-by-the-far-right): The far right is preying on the fears of the vulnerable ahead of June’s elections. Progressives must tackle the causes of its rise.
- [Corporate due diligence: a global-south perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-due-diligence-a-global-south-perspective): Two Pakistani trade unionists explain in interview why the EU supply-chain directive must be unblocked.
- [Poland: from populism … into the unknown](https://www.socialeurope.eu/poland-from-populism-into-the-unknown): Jan Zielonka draws lessons from the second transition in Poland—and its Europe-wide ramifications.
- [Football, democracy and private equity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/football-democracy-and-private-equity): Fans have prevailed over finance in the Bundesliga—which should lead to a rethink of private equity’s role in society.
- [Adopting far-right rhetoric increases far-right votes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/adopting-far-right-rhetoric-increases-far-right-votes): Mainstream parties attempting to regain support from radical-right populists can unintentionally benefit them.
- [Crime and security in far-right discourse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/crime-and-security-in-far-right-discourse): Protests in Ireland against the housing of single male asylum-seekers highlight the role played by security in far-right discourse.
- [Ukraine: a bitter armistice or war until victory?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-a-bitter-armistice-or-war-until-victory): After two years of war, victory eludes Ukraine yet must be denied Russia—a frozen conflict is the least bad scenario.
- [#FairFarma: an open call for a fair policy on drugs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fairfarma-an-open-call-for-a-fair-policy-on-drugs): Belgian civil-society organisations issue a call to the presidency of the Council of the EU.
- [Getting to net zero: Europe’s investment challenge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/getting-to-net-zero-europes-investment-challenge): Europe must invest heavily in its decarbonisation. Yet the expenditures are manageable, the alternatives unconscionable.
- [Farmers’ protests: against whom the horn honks?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/farmers-protests-against-whom-the-horn-honks): The fragility of our food system and lack of social acceptance of EU policies must be addressed in the next mandate.
- [Germany: an elegy for principled humanitarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-an-elegy-for-principled-humanitarianism): Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza has fallen victim to other than humanitarian considerations.
- [EU legislation on health data a gift to Big Tech](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-legislation-on-health-data-a-gift-to-big-tech): The European Health Data Space under negotiations will turn citizens’ medical data into profits for US technology corporations.
- [What works for the left? Liberal socialism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-works-for-the-left-liberal-socialism): As the European Parliament elections loom, with the populists rising, progressives need a liberal-left narrative.
- [‘Building back better’: a promise fulfilled?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-back-better-a-promise-fulfilled): Three years on, the lesson of the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund is that building economic resilience is a long-term endeavour.
- [International sport: the rules of the game](https://www.socialeurope.eu/international-sport-the-rules-of-the-game): Power imbalances in international sport, Ankita Anand writes, reflect the global north-south disparity.
- [The farmers’ protests, the far right and the fallout](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-farmers-protests-the-far-right-and-the-fallout): The EU must stop giving ground on its climate vows—unless it wants to help the far right ride to victory.
- [European Works Councils: on a road to further reform](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-works-councils-on-a-road-to-further-reform): The latest proposals from the European Commission could put European Works Councils on a firmer footing.
- [Amazon: call to ban its lobbyists backed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/amazon-call-to-ban-its-lobbyists-backed): Support is mobilised behind the demand by MEPs that Amazon’s lobbyists be barred from the European Parliament.
- [Strike wave in Finland—a legacy of trust in transition?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strike-wave-in-finland-a-legacy-of-trust-in-transition): A wave of strikes has followed moves by the government in Helsinki to interfere with workers’ rights.
- [Rare earths, geopolitics and a village called Ulefoss](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rare-earths-geopolitics-and-a-village-called-ulefoss): Strategic autonomy meets local democracy at the resource frontier while Europe pushes ahead with the green transition.
- [Quality early years services: building the future Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/quality-early-years-services-building-the-future-europe): Early childhood education and care workers must be recruited, rewarded, recognised and retained.
- [Ukraine and Europe: speaking truth to ourselves](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-and-europe-speaking-truth-to-ourselves): The war in Ukraine has two major implications for Europe and Europeans. Unfortunately, they are contradictory.
- [Germany’s protests: defying a national stereotype](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-protests-defying-a-national-stereotype): The wave of demonstrations against the Alternative für Deutschland is no surprise, given Germany’s postwar history.
- [Renewable electricity in Europe—wind in its sails](https://www.socialeurope.eu/renewable-electricity-in-europe-wind-in-its-sails): The EU’s power sector is in the middle of a monumental shift from fossil-fuel to renewable generation.
- [Backsliding in Belgrade: Serbia’s European future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/backsliding-in-belgrade-serbias-european-future): Serbia is rapidly veering off its accession course, with a potentially fraudulent election and growing distance from EU foreign policy.
- [Due-diligence directive: it can’t be unpicked](https://www.socialeurope.eu/due-diligence-directive-it-cant-be-unpicked): A key decision is awaited on the directive on corporate sustainability due diligence—facing rearguard corporate resistance.
- [Strengthening social cohesion amid the polycrisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strengthening-social-cohesion-amid-the-polycrisis): Unconventional policies buttressed a decline in inequality and poverty in the EU. Renewed austerity might endanger it.
- [Technological development: valuing labour](https://www.socialeurope.eu/technological-development-valuing-labour): Technological innovation at work should be thought of in terms of supporting labour, not supplanting it.
- [Fighting poverty: directive on minimum income needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fighting-poverty-directive-on-minimum-income-needed): As the European elections loom, legislation addressing the root causes of poverty must move to the top of the agenda.
- [An eco-social care contract for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-eco-social-care-contract-for-europe): In the next term the EU can advance an eco-social future which values participation in care and enables access as a universal basic service.
- [Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-nightmare-an-isolationist-america): A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.
- [Out of their class: quality education for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/out-of-their-class-quality-education-for-all): A Harlem schools programme shows how education can counter, rather than reinforce, brute-luck disadvantage.
- [Ukraine is quietly abandoning neoliberalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-is-quietly-abandoning-neoliberalism): Kyiv’s need for self-defence has pushed the country towards far-reaching expansion of the state’s economic role.
- [COP and women: change of political climate needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cop-and-women-change-of-political-climate-needed): Women, though disproportionately affected by climate change, are an afterthought when it comes to climate action.
- [Standards for equality bodies—nearly done](https://www.socialeurope.eu/standards-for-equality-bodies-nearly-done): The long process of levelling up the capacity of EU member states’ equality bodies is accelerating to a conclusion.
- [A sharp right turn: European Parliament election forecast](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-sharp-right-turn-european-parliament-election-forecast): Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.
- [Europe and conflict prevention: better than cure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-and-conflict-prevention-better-than-cure): The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.
- [Can the IMF and the World Bank really be changed?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-imf-and-the-world-bank-really-be-changed): Those with seats at the table of the international financial institutions, Jayati Ghosh writes, cling to their power.
- [Musculo-skeletal disorders: lifting the strain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/musculo-skeletal-disorders-lifting-the-strain): A spotlight on health and social care shows the need for an EU directive on musculo-skeletal disorders.
- [Time to recognise a fifth EU freedom: solidarity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-recognise-a-fifth-eu-freedom-solidarity): Tesla’s confrontation with Swedish workers highlights how solidarity must be enabled in a globalised Europe.
- [Preparing Russia for permanent war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/preparing-russia-for-permanent-war): Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.
- [Platform-work directive: the clock is ticking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platform-work-directive-the-clock-is-ticking): The ‘gig’-economy directive, a critical legacy of social rights from this EU term, is being held up by some member states.
- [Six ways to tighten the circular economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/six-ways-to-tighten-the-circular-economy): Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.
- [A progressive green-growth narrative](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-progressive-green-growth-narrative): Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.
- [Refugees and Rwanda: the Tories’ road to perdition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/refugees-and-rwanda-the-tories-road-to-perdition): Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.
- [Gender, energy poverty and the European Green Deal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gender-energy-poverty-and-the-european-green-deal): Tackling energy poverty is key if the European Green Deal is to be transformative. That in turn requires a gender lens.
- [Becoming like Germany: hurdles and dilemmas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/becoming-like-germany-hurdles-and-dilemmas): The new EU fiscal rules being finalised would still leave central- and eastern-European states such as Latvia in a bind.
- [Israel, Hamas and the Gaza war: delusion and reality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/israel-hamas-and-the-gaza-war-delusion-and-reality): Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
- [The global consequences of the war in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-global-consequences-of-the-war-in-ukraine): That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.
- [Taxing wealth to break billionaire dominance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-wealth-to-break-billionaire-dominance): As men in expensive suits discuss running the world at Davos this week, taxation can rein in their power.
- [Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/asylum-and-migration-a-positive-alternative-policy): It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.
- [When ‘never again’ becomes ‘again and again’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-never-again-becomes-again-and-again): The dalliance of the German AfD with neo-Nazis is echoed by the brazenness of the far right in Austria.
- [Identity politics: in defence of ‘old white men’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/identity-politics-in-defence-of-old-white-men): Arguments over who has a right to speak, Eszter Kováts writes, should give way to discussing what they say.
- [Agreement on migration or political gesture?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/agreement-on-migration-or-political-gesture): The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.
- [The EU must rise to the enlargement challenge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-must-rise-to-the-enlargement-challenge): A host of obstacles to realising the enlargement perspective of the summit in December can be surmounted with political will.
- [The west must face reality in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-west-must-face-reality-in-ukraine): Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.
- [Germany: the ‘sick man’ of Europe—but ‘dumb’ as well?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-the-sick-man-of-europe-but-dumb-as-well): The austerity package stemming from an adverse Constitutional Court ruling, Peter Bofinger writes, defies logic.
- [EU enlargement, reform and the missing citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-enlargement-reform-and-the-missing-citizens): EU institutional reform should be about the citizenry. So what happened to the Conference on the Future of Europe?
- [The sustainability transition needs a new narrative](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-sustainability-transition-needs-a-new-narrative): To ensure broad-based support for wholesale change, policy-makers will need to pursue an equitable transformation.
- [Neoliberalism: still to shrug off its mortal coil](https://www.socialeurope.eu/neoliberalism-still-to-shrug-off-its-mortal-coil): In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since.
- [The German debt brake—reform urgent](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-german-debt-brake-reform-urgent): The Schuldenbremse is often depicted as a bulwark against inflation. Actually, it can contribute to rising prices.
- [AFL-CIO/Microsoft AI partnership: model to copy?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/afl-cio-microsoft-ai-partnership-model-to-follow): Workers must have a collective voice in the design of artificial-intelligence systems for the workplace.
- [Normalising the far right: a warning from Austria](https://www.socialeurope.eu/normalising-the-far-right-a-warning-from-austria): Facing the threat from right-wing populism at June’s Euro-elections, Austria offers lessons for progressives.
- [Yesterday, today and the shadow of fascism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/yesterday-today-and-the-shadow-of-fascism): Why has the far right returned, after Holocaust and war? Chaos unnerves the vulnerable, sugaring fascism’s hollow promises.
- [A warning to Scrooges: cut long working hours](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-warning-to-scrooges-cut-long-working-hours): A right to disconect, collective bargaining and public procurement are the levers to reduce excessive working hours.
- [Competition policy: turn to the labour market](https://www.socialeurope.eu/competition-policy-turn-to-the-labour-market): Weak competition on labour markets means wages are often set below the market-clearing level.
- [Maritime needs stronger wind to cut its emissions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/maritime-needs-stronger-wind-to-cut-its-emissions): The European Commission’s plan to extend the Emissions Trading Scheme to the sector falls short in driving decarbonisation.
- [2024: a year that will decide the future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/2024-a-year-that-will-decide-the-future): The European Green Deal faces a fork in the road—between the politics of hope and the politics of fear—as the June elections loom.
- [Sharp energy-price shock met fuzzy responses](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sharp-energy-price-shock-met-fuzzy-responses): National measures adopted amid the energy crisis missed the opportunity to pursue social and climate goals.
- [Learning mobility: making it the norm in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/learning-mobility-making-it-the-norm-in-the-eu): Even if ambitious 2030 targets were attained, Sofia Fernandes writes, learning mobility would still be a minority privilege.
- [‘Building back better’ needs green construction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-back-better-needs-green-construction): Pursuing energy efficiency will generate more construction jobs—but that requires tackling labour shortages and skills mismatches.
- [Time for a job guarantee in Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-for-a-job-guarantee-in-europe): A job guarantee could end long spells of joblessness for millions in the EU and send a pre-election signal that a ‘social Europe’ is possible.
- [EU fiscal rules: time to face the contradictions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-fiscal-rules-time-to-face-the-contradictions): The new version of the pre-pandemic fiscal rules, if imposed, would jeopardise the European economy.
- [The shadow of austerity—and authoritarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-shadow-of-austerity-and-authoritarianism): European trade unions are mobilising today in Brussels against the austerity which would follow reimplanted fiscal rules.
- [Just a matter of time? The ‘right to disconnect’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/just-a-matter-of-time-the-right-to-disconnect): Achieving the right to disconnect is becoming a test case of the European Union’s commitment to social dialogue.
- [EU-US relations: key to geopolitical stability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-us-relations-key-to-geopolitical-stability): The transatlantic partnership must be strengthened to combat a range of multifaceted global challenges.
- [The AI Act: deregulation in disguise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ai-act-deregulation-in-disguise): The loopholes in the AI Act emerging from trilogue negotiations late on Friday could allow big corporations to slip through.
- [The idea of a liberal socialism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-idea-of-a-liberal-socialism): Liberalism and socialism have been wrongly counterposed. Connected, they represent a hegemonic alternative.
- [European constitutional reform hangs in the balance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-constitutional-reform-hangs-in-the-balance): The EU needs more coherent governance not just to accommodate its enlargement but to assume its global responsibilities.
- [Treaty changes for an EU that works for citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/treaty-changes-for-an-eu-that-works-for-citizens): The European Parliament last month endorsed proposals for treaty changes which would trump nationalistic vetoes.
- [Investing in human security in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/investing-in-human-security-in-europe): Public investment has been skewed towards the military in the last decade when a much wider array of threats are in evidence.
- [European citizenship education—antidote to hate](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-citizenship-education-antidote-to-hate): Unified citizenship education is a must to stop democratic backsliding in the European Union.
- [Healthcare depends on the health of social dialogue](https://www.socialeurope.eu/healthcare-depends-on-the-health-of-social-dialogue): As pressures grow on Europe’s hospitals, lessons must be learned from social dialogue during the pandemic.
- [Barking up the wrong European tree](https://www.socialeurope.eu/barking-up-the-wrong-european-tree): A multi-level Europe of networks, Jan Zielonka argues, is the flexible alternative to brittle clashes over ‘sovereignty’.
- [The renewable answer to Europe’s fossil-fuel inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-renewable-answer-to-europes-fossil-fuel-inflation): Fossil-energy prices have played a big role in the cost-of-living crisis—and renewables are a big part of the solution.
- [Energy transition: more ambition needed from EU27](https://www.socialeurope.eu/energy-transition-more-ambition-needed-from-eu27): The climate blueprints from EU member states are inadequate—and would forgo major socio-economic benefits.
- [Tackling the scourge of racism across the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-the-scourge-of-racism-across-the-eu): The latest survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights shows racism is pervasive and persistent.
- [Media freedom: Europe’s media cannot be half-free](https://www.socialeurope.eu/media-freedom-europes-media-cannot-be-half-free): EU member states must not water down critical legislation protecting media independence and pluralism.
- [Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/vladimir-putins-killer-patriotism): Last year’s ‘partial mobilisation’ triggered a backlash against the Kremlin and Putin is fearful of a repeat.
- [Unfreezing the frames: media diversity in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unfreezing-the-frames-media-diversity-in-europe): Europe’s media need to be more diverse, Ankita Anand writes, to reflect accurately the world on which they report.
- [Geert Wilders and Dutch coalition prospects](https://www.socialeurope.eu/geert-wilders-and-dutch-coalition-prospects): The election victory in the Netherlands for the Party for Freedom fits into a wider picture of European radical-right populism.
- [Worldwide strikes, protests—making Amazon pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/worldwide-strikes-protests-making-amazon-pay): The monopoly online retailer has extracted vast rents from workers and citizens who are raising their voices globally.
- [For equality and the climate, a European wealth tax](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-equality-and-the-climate-a-european-wealth-tax): The richest 10 per cent of Europeans are responsible for the same carbon emissions as the poorer half of the population.
- [Big Tech lobbying is derailing the AI Act](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-tech-lobbying-is-derailing-the-ai-act): Behind closed doors, the companies have fiercely lobbied the European Union to leave advanced artificial-intelligence systems unregulated.
- [Green jobs: from challenge to opportunity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-jobs-from-challenge-to-opportunity): Greening our economies offers a unique opportunity to improve job quality in Europe. Justice for workers should be at the core.
- [Central-bank independence: the beginning of the end?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/central-bank-independence-the-beginning-of-the-end): Rising interest rates have devalued central banks’ assets, creating demands for recapitalisation. Time for a debate.
- [EU member states threaten progress on air quality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-member-states-threaten-progress-on-air-quality): The Council of the EU’s position would continue to expose the poorest to toxic air for years to come.
- [Italy, Albania, asylum and ‘European values’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italy-albania-asylum-and-european-values): Albania’s agreement to process offshore asylum-seekers heading for Italy, Lily Lynch writes, is not a good look.
- [Is Germany going authoritarian-left?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-germany-going-authoritarian-left): Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.
- [COP28 must focus on the climate-fuelled health crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cop28-must-focus-on-the-climate-fuelled-health-crisis): The data show we are heading toward catastrophe, yet world leaders refuse to recognise the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels.
- [Prioritising profits over Europe’s childcare](https://www.socialeurope.eu/prioritising-profits-over-europes-childcare): As in adult long-term care, corporations are accruing rents from publicly funded childcare, exploiting workers and children.
- [Ensuring a just Europe for all children](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ensuring-a-just-europe-for-all-children): More children are at risk of poverty than before the pandemic—early childhood education and care is critical.
- [Israel-Palestine: what kind of solidarity?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/israel-palestine-what-kind-of-solidarity): The imperative of solidarity is with all those Jews and Palestinians who seek the solution neither Hamas nor Netanyahu wants.
- [War in Gaza: the silence of Europe’s leaders](https://www.socialeurope.eu/war-in-gaza-the-silence-of-europes-leaders): The European Union must find a collective and distinctive voice to seek to rein in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
- [Social democracy in the global south at a crossroads](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democracy-in-the-global-south-at-a-crossroads): Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.
- [For socially fair European disability cards](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-socially-fair-european-disability-cards): The proposal from the European Commission would fall short of equal citizenship for disabled people.
- [Big tent: the social-democratic election formula](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-tent-the-social-democratic-election-formula): A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.
- [The imperative of reforming EU economic governance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-imperative-of-reforming-eu-economic-governance): Finance ministers must forestall reapplication of the existing fiscal rules, to prevent a disastrous renewal of austerity.
- [The fight against human trafficking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-fight-against-human-trafficking): As trilogue negotiations begin, the EU is on the home stretch of a crucial directive for victims of human trafficking.
- [How industry can launder a health-risking substance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-industry-can-launder-a-health-risking-substance): Titanium dioxide should remain classified as carcinogenic within the EU—despite industry interference.
- [Sweden: a social model losing its sheen](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sweden-a-social-model-losing-its-sheen): Sweden’s much-lauded model of prosperity and social comfort is threatened by a lack of public investment.
- [A new world order: from warring states to citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-world-order-from-warring-states-to-citizens): It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.
- [Germany and Ukraine: avoiding refugee tensions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-and-ukraine-avoiding-refugee-tensions): A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.
- [‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream](https://www.socialeurope.eu/womens-economics-goes-mainstream): Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.
- [Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rethinking-globalisation-in-an-age-of-crises): We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades
- [US electric-car maker faces Swedish union shock](https://www.socialeurope.eu/us-electric-car-maker-faces-swedish-union-shock): Tesla faces its first ever strike after refusing to negotiate with the Swedish trade union IF Metall.
- [Equality for persons with disabilities on the move](https://www.socialeurope.eu/equality-for-persons-with-disabilities-on-the-move): The European Commission has put its disability cards on the table but it is not a full hand.
- [Global tax evasion: the good and the bad news](https://www.socialeurope.eu/global-tax-evasion-the-good-and-the-bad-news): A genuine assault on individual and corporate tax evasion, Jayati Ghosh writes, would tap vast revenue resources.
- [Making the twin transition: skills at a premium](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-the-twin-transition-skills-at-a-premium): The European Union Year of Skills needs to deliver a ‘right to training’ for workers.
- [Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-numbers-securing-gender-equality-in-politics): Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.
- [Gender equality: focus on the world of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gender-equality-focus-on-the-world-of-work): A rebalanced distribution of paid and unpaid work is a prerequisite of gender equality in employment.
- [Pay transparency: closing the gender pay gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pay-transparency-closing-the-gender-pay-gap): In segregated labour markets, women need hypothetical comparators and collective support to make equal-pay claims.
- [Dangers ahead for the platform-work directive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dangers-ahead-for-the-platform-work-directive): The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.
- [Energy union: including the public imperative](https://www.socialeurope.eu/energy-union-including-the-public-imperative): Pursuit of industrial competitiveness and renewable technologies must avoid a backlash from disengaged citizens.
- [Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/israel-and-hamas-the-debasement-of-discourse): Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.
- [Rethinking the nation, beyond nativism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rethinking-the-nation-beyond-nativism): Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.
- [The struggle for a just peace in Israel and Palestine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-struggle-for-a-just-peace-in-israel-and-palestine): The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.
- [Poland’s historic election: democracy won](https://www.socialeurope.eu/polands-historic-election-democracy-won): With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.
- [Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/israel-palestine-a-comparative-perspective): An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.
- [Make chemical safety an EU priority](https://www.socialeurope.eu/make-chemical-safety-an-eu-priority): Tens of thousands of deaths in Europe are caused each year by exposure of workers to hazardous chemicals.
- [Drawing the consequences from the Várhelyi affair](https://www.socialeurope.eu/drawing-the-consequences-from-the-varhelyi-affair): The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.
- [‘Trigger points’ and the polarisation entrepreneurs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trigger-points-and-the-polarisation-entrepreneurs): Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.
- [A fairer energy system with energy communities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-fairer-energy-system-with-energy-communities): Energy communities, fostering decentralised, renewable supply, need support with their additional social responsibilities.
- [Collective bargaining—key to business performance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-key-to-business-performance): Collective bargaining does not only improve workers’ wages and conditions. It also enhances company performance.
- [Overcrowded camps at Europe’s borders](https://www.socialeurope.eu/overcrowded-camps-at-europes-borders): Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.
- [On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-the-road-to-nowhere-the-sdgs-at-half-time): In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
- [Germany’s true economic disease](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-true-economic-disease): Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.
- [Slovakia: could this be Fico’s last hurrah?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/slovakia-could-this-be-ficos-last-hurrah): The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.
- [How finance became the problem](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-finance-became-the-problem): Finance has become the driving force behind most decision-making. We seem to have unlearned politics.
- [Making EU economic governance fit for purpose](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-eu-economic-governance-fit-for-purpose): Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.
- [Backtracking on a green and just transition?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/backtracking-on-a-green-and-just-transition): The Granada declaration will signal whether Europe’s leaders can rise to the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.
- [G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures](https://www.socialeurope.eu/g7-versus-the-brics-taking-stock-in-12-figures): Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
- [Powering up: the EU and solar energy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/powering-up-the-eu-and-solar-energy): A new approach is needed towards the photovoltaic industry in Europe.
- [Sweden’s climate policy—off the rails](https://www.socialeurope.eu/swedens-climate-policy-off-the-rails): A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.
- [Detroit, Joe Biden and a union renaissance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/detroit-joe-biden-and-a-union-renaissance): For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.
- [The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-oecd-and-the-great-monetary-restriction): Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.
- [Prostitution is not a free choice for women](https://www.socialeurope.eu/prostitution-is-not-a-free-choice-for-women): The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.
- [Abuse at work: who bears the brunt?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/abuse-at-work-who-bears-the-brunt): When it comes to violence in the workplace, women and frontline workers are disproportionately the victims.
- [Vienna social-housing model: celebrated but misused](https://www.socialeurope.eu/vienna-social-housing-model-celebrated-but-misused): The ‘Vienna model’ has been distorted to embrace private investment but its real redefinition should be ecological.
- [Social democracy versus the nativist right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democracy-versus-the-nativist-right): If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.
- [Which comes first—Big Toxics’ profits or health?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/which-comes-first-big-toxics-profits-or-health): Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.
- [EU enlargement—back to the future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-enlargement-back-to-the-future): How the European Union failed to deal with the collapse of Yugoslavia has lessons for the imperative of enlargement today.
- [Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fostering-public-research-or-boosting-big-tech): The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.
- [Non-EU migrant workers—the ties that bind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/non-eu-migrant-workers-the-ties-that-bind): The European Union stands at a fork in the road when it comes to its treatment of external migrant workers.
- [How the ECB’s ‘deposit facility’ subsidises banks](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-ecbs-deposit-facility-subsidises-banks): Banks profit from the European Central Bank’s interest-rate policy at the expense of taxpayers.
- [All work and low pay—Europe’s migrant workforce](https://www.socialeurope.eu/all-work-and-low-pay-europes-migrant-workforce): To really end labour shortages, Ankita Anand writes, Europe must transform its contract with the global south.
- [The case for a European prize for art](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-case-for-a-european-prize-for-art): Europeans are living through an extraordinary historical moment. Great contemporary works of art help them grasp it.
- [Ursula von der Leyen—the accidental president](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ursula-von-der-leyen-the-accidental-president): The State of the European Union address reflected a union buffeted by a series of crises.
- [Job quality: a sine qua non, not just nice to have](https://www.socialeurope.eu/job-quality-a-sine-qua-non-not-just-nice-to-have): Elevating job quality by resourcing workers better is pivotal to addressing today’s workplace and societal challenges.
- [Europe’s food systems—long past their expiry date](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-food-systems-long-past-their-expiry-date): To counter the threats posed to climate, biodiversity, human health and societal wellbeing, food systems need urgent transformation.
- [Air quality critical for social justice and the environment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/air-quality-critical-for-social-justice-and-the-environment): New European air laws can save lives and help the climate. A key vote takes place in the European Parliament today.
- [Feeling the heat: Europe’s firefighters need support](https://www.socialeurope.eu/feeling-the-heat-europes-firefighters-need-support): Firefighter numbers have been cut, when investment—especially in prevention—is key to stemming Europe’s wildfires.
- [Collective bargaining: Romania shows the way](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-romania-shows-the-way): Romania’s recent law strengthening collective bargaining offers a way forward for the European Union.
- [Why labour can be in short supply](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-labour-can-be-in-short-supply): Improving job quality is key to addressing labour shortages In the European Union.
- [Social protection: enhancing benefit take-up](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-protection-enhancing-benefit-take-up): Europe’s social-protection schemes are full of holes, affecting the most vulnerable most—but they can be fixed.
- [Exchanging glances: Serbia seduces illiberal America](https://www.socialeurope.eu/exchanging-glances-serbia-seduces-illiberal-america): The government of Aleksandar Vučić is trying to clean up its image, Lily Lynch writes—without having to clean up its act.
- [Cutting methane emissions: greater ambition needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cutting-methane-emissions-greater-ambition-needed): A proposed EU regulation on methane emissions must be strengthened, not diluted, to address a planet on fire.
- [After the ‘Beijing consensus’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-beijing-consensus): China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.
- [Trade policy: a call for solidarity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-policy-a-call-for-solidarity): The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.
- [Russia is winning the information war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russia-is-winning-the-information-war): In Europe the struggle by Ukraine has largely been seen as a defence of universal norms. But around the world that is far from universal.
- [Lean work and a narrowing path to ‘good jobs’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lean-work-and-a-narrowing-path-to-good-jobs): Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.
- [Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-unite-to-stop-deep-sea-resource-grab): The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.
- [Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: what future now?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/five-years-of-fridays-for-future-what-future-now): The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies.
- [Lachin corridor needs more than EU tunnel vision](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lachin-corridor-needs-more-than-eu-tunnel-vision): If Europe does not wake up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, it could be complicit in genocide.
- [Olaf Scholz, the improbable role model](https://www.socialeurope.eu/olaf-scholz-the-improbable-role-model): A state that protects—and a bulwark for democracy and modernity. Is this, Robert Misik asks, the new paradigm of the democratic left?
- [Facing Europe’s huge challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/facing-europes-huge-challenges): The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine.
- [Facing the social realities of the green transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/facing-the-social-realities-of-the-green-transition): Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.
- [A European Media Freedom Act worthy of its name?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-media-freedom-act-worthy-of-its-name): Amid a sea of online misinformation, in a ‘polycrisis’ world reliable public-interest journalism has never been more essential.
- [The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-answer-to-an-anti-green-backlash-is-to-be-redder): Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.
- [Europe facing three threats to its future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-facing-three-threats-to-its-future): The EU has to navigate disturbing internal dynamics, external challenges and a weak economic outlook.
- [Policing must be based on human rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/policing-must-be-based-on-human-rights): Police services exist to uphold the rule of law. They can only do so if their policing model is based on protection of human rights.
- [Ukraine’s recovery: a huge challenge ahead](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraines-recovery-a-huge-challenge-ahead): Ukraine’s post-war recovery will require concerted, long-term EU commitment, leveraging substantial private investment.
- [From inflation shock to a sharp distributional conflict](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-inflation-shock-to-a-sharp-distributional-conflict): Wages have fallen behind inflation, while profit-taking has not only fuelled price rises but reduced the labour share.
- [Get ready for the X-day week!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/get-ready-for-the-x-day-week): The clunky debate over four versus five days should be replaced by a focus on flexibility and individal autonomy.
- [Refugees: ‘how could we possibly get here?’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/refugees-how-could-we-possibly-get-here): The European Union is crossing human-rights red lines with its Common European Asylum System.
- [How populists stay popular, from Ankara to Budapest](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-populists-stay-popular-from-ankara-to-budapest): Once installed in power, authoritarian leaders such as Erdoğan and Orbán are very hard to dislodge.
- [Three choices for a more strategic Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/three-choices-for-a-more-strategic-europe): The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.
- [Taking inequality seriously—and tackling it seriously](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taking-inequality-seriously-and-tackling-it-seriously): Rising inequality is a challenge for the multilateral system, Jayati Ghosh writes, which must first measure it properly.
- [Changing the face of trade-union leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/changing-the-face-of-trade-union-leadership): Women are increasingly assuming leading roles in trade unions. Next comes changing organisational cultures.
- [Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nature-restoration-law-an-opportunity-crucial-to-seize): The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.
- [‘Social media’: the harms to women and girls](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-media-the-harms-to-women-and-girls): Europe needs to address a major factor in the mental-health crisis facing adolescent girls in particular.
- [Election in Spain: Faustian pact with far right looms?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/election-in-spain-faustian-pact-with-far-right-looms): Parliamentary elections this weekend in Spain could see the far-right party win a share of power.
- [Access to vaccines and medicines—a new paradigm](https://www.socialeurope.eu/access-to-vaccines-and-medicines-a-new-paradigm): Vaccines and medicines must no longer be thought of as profitable commodities but public goods.
- [Taking aim at sellers’ inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taking-aim-at-sellers-inflation): Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.
- [Improving working life in France—and the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/improving-working-life-in-france-and-the-eu): In France the debate is moving from longer to better working lives, Sofia Fernandes writes, but this is a Europe-wide challenge.
- [European Investment Bank: structural reform needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-investment-bank-structural-reform-needed): Europe’s unwillingness to invest in public services and meet the greatest need is creating second-class citizens.
- [We only have one planet left to save](https://www.socialeurope.eu/we-only-have-one-planet-left-to-save): The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.
- [Why the Paris financing summit failed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-paris-financing-summit-failed): The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.
- [European social dialogue for Europe’s social services](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-dialogue-for-europes-social-services): An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.
- [The Supreme Court kicks away the ladder](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-supreme-court-kicks-away-the-ladder): The US Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action in university admissions has struck at the heart of the ‘American dream’.
- [Ukraine’s journalists battle for their independence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraines-journalists-battle-for-their-independence): A report out today highlights how independent media will be as critical as funding for Ukraine’s postwar recovery.
- [Industrial policy is back—but Europe must now lead](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-is-back-but-europe-must-now-lead): EU ‘strategic autonomy’ requires a revitalised industrial policy which goes beyond the national container.
- [Equality bodies: how things stand on EU standards](https://www.socialeurope.eu/equality-bodies-how-things-stand-on-eu-standards): EU standards for national equality bodies have come a step closer but there is work for the European Parliament to do.
- [AI, platforms and (human) workers’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-platforms-and-human-workers-rights): Not just the AI Act but the platform-work directive will be critical for human controls on automated management.
- [An EU framework for artists’ working conditions, finally?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-eu-framework-for-artists-working-conditions-finally): A framework for conditions in the cultural sector is back on the agenda. This time it must stay there.
- [Childcare as a catalyst—Portugal’s bold step](https://www.socialeurope.eu/childcare-as-a-catalyst-portugals-bold-step): Portugal’s rolling out of free universal childcare offers a model in social investment and tackling inequality.
- [Moving—bottom-up—beyond the crisis in Kosovo](https://www.socialeurope.eu/moving-bottom-up-beyond-the-crisis-in-kosovo): Civil-society-led dialogue will be key if disinformation is to be rebutted and trust is to be rebuilt.
- [The Global Rights Index and building a better world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-global-rights-index-and-building-a-better-world): Attacks on workers’ rights are on the rise—in no region of the world can they be taken for granted any longer.
- [Orbán, ethnonationalism and xenophobia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/orban-ethnonationalism-and-xenophobia): Rejection of the EU’s latest plan for a co-ordinated approach to people movement stems from Orbán’s redefinition of Hungary.
- [Seeing through Orbán’s anti-‘woke’ smokescreen](https://www.socialeurope.eu/seeing-through-orbans-anti-woke-smokescreen): Western liberals, Eszter Kováts writes, should avoid being seduced by Hungary’s authoritarian mouthpieces.
- [EU needs to take violence against women seriously](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-needs-to-take-violence-against-women-seriously): A clash is looming between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on including rape in a coming directive.
- [Profit-driven inflation—the policy implications](https://www.socialeurope.eu/profit-driven-inflation-the-policy-implications): It’s time to strengthen labour in the face of inflation, not to continue trying to weaken it.
- [EU competition policy needs a fundamental rethink](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-competition-policy-needs-a-fundamental-rethink): Competition policy has been based on a presumption of market equilibrium. Mushrooming corporate power has passed it by.
- [Disabled people and the right to personal assistance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/disabled-people-and-the-right-to-personal-assistance): Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.
- [Cultivating inclusion through EU film funding](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cultivating-inclusion-through-eu-film-funding): Audio description and audio subtitling should become eligibility criteria for EU-funded film projects.
- [Russia’s dangerous nuclear consensus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russias-dangerous-nuclear-consensus): The war in Ukraine has raised the spectre not only of Russia’s disintegration but also of a catastrophic nuclear confrontation.
- [Ryanair—on the side of Europe’s citizens?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ryanair-on-the-side-of-europes-citizens): The low-cost carrier has presented a petition to the European Commission attacking the right to strike.
- [Bologna’s riders: ‘It’s not for us but for everyone!’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bolognas-riders-its-not-for-us-but-for-everyone): The metropolitan struggles of food-delivery riders in Bologna carry lessons beyond their space and time.
- [Ukraine: renewable energy, war and reconstruction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-renewable-energy-war-and-reconstruction): Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.
- [Public services key to a Europe ‘beyond growth’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-services-key-to-a-europe-beyond-growth): Europe must reject a return to austerity and support the workers who promote social wellbeing.
- [After the Pegasus inquiry: watching Big Brother](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-pegasus-inquiry-watching-big-brother): The European Parliament’s inquiry on Pegasus is over; the struggle for freedom from illegitimate surveillance is not.
- [Europe’s green transition: securing the material base](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-green-transition-securing-the-material-base): To scale up, the EU needs clear pathways for clean-energy supply chains in mining and manufacturing.
- [EU’s values should dictate an ethos of hospitality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eus-values-should-dictate-an-ethos-of-hospitality): Violations of the rights of migrants and the silencing of human-rights defenders stem from a mindset of security and control.
- [The fertiliser conundrum](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-fertiliser-conundrum): Making the global food system more sustainable and equitable is hugely complex and involves difficult trade-offs.
- [ECB president Lagarde: has she become unstoppable?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ecb-president-lagarde-has-she-become-unstoppable): Asserting the need for further interest rate rises, Peter Bofinger writes, is not the same as evidencing them.
- [European Parliament on AI Act: still rights gaps to fill](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-parliament-on-ai-act-still-rights-gaps-to-fill): The parliament has stood firm against mass surveillance but has missed the opportunity to enhance provisions.
- [The dam has burst: making ecocide a crime](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-dam-has-burst-making-ecocide-a-crime): Russia’s war on Ukraine creates momentum for a breakthrough in adopting ecocide as an international crime.
- [Greek election outcome: towards a new disorder](https://www.socialeurope.eu/greek-election-outcome-towards-a-new-disorder): Last month’s election produced an unexpected destabilisation of the party system and triggered a repeat contest on June 25th.
- [Berlusconi: populist pioneer who rode Italy into the sand](https://www.socialeurope.eu/berlusconi-populist-pioneer-who-rode-italy-into-the-sand): Since Berlusconi’s death, the media have focused on his persona—not Berlusconism and its legacy.
- [Gloves off: aggression towards frontline workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gloves-off-aggression-towards-frontline-workers): Frontline staff are facing rising aggression. Employers need to reduce risks and provide support.
- [Due-diligence directive—key issues for final negotiations](https://www.socialeurope.eu/due-diligence-directive-key-issues-for-final-negotiations): Corporate due diligence is not just about auditing. Key to sustaining people and planet, ambition is required.
- [New EU fiscal rules: a democratic deficit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/new-eu-fiscal-rules-a-democratic-deficit): The proposed new rules would give member states more role in defining their ‘fiscal paths’—just not parliaments.
- [ILO condemns Belarus’ violation of union rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ilo-condemns-belarus-violation-of-union-rights): The International Labour Conference has taken an unprecedented step to challenge Lukashenka’s denial of freedom of association.
- [The circular economy: a geometry lesson](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-circular-economy-a-geometry-lesson): Equating circularity with narrowing and slowing lets virtually all businesses join the bandwagon.
- [Where is Poland heading, with elections looming?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-is-poland-heading-with-elections-looming): Amid huge demonstrations against the populist government, buffeted by legal challenges, the stakes could not be higher.
- [New SPÖ leader: can he stem the far-right surge?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/new-spo-leader-can-he-stem-the-far-right-surge): After months of strife among Austria’s social democrats—and an election screw-up—they have a new leader.
- [Barcelona: a feminist municipalism now at risk](https://www.socialeurope.eu/barcelona-a-feminist-municipalism-now-at-risk): Barcelona has shown the transformative role urban municipalities can play in conjunction with local civil society.
- [Is Spain on the right track?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-spain-on-the-right-track): If Spaniards vote for the right next month, Spain would be yet another country in its growing European bulwark.
- [Central and eastern Europe: a renewable-energy win-win](https://www.socialeurope.eu/central-and-eastern-europe-a-renewable-energy-win-win): CEE countries have large wind and solar potential. Greening power supplies would also reduce prices.
- [Tackling inequality in the city—Cape Town](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-inequality-in-the-city-cape-town): Today’s global cities are characterised by high inequality. They need supportive multi-level governance to address it.
- [Reform of EU fiscal rules—more ambition needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reform-of-eu-fiscal-rules-more-ambition-needed): What the European Commission proposes makes sense as far as it goes. But that is not nearly far enough.
- [How green Europeans can cure Earth’s climate blues](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-green-europeans-can-cure-earths-climate-blues): The EU needs to redouble efforts to build coalitions and form alliances with key states—especially in the global south.
- [Exploiting every crisis: why the FPÖ is topping the polls](https://www.socialeurope.eu/exploiting-every-crisis-why-the-fpo-is-topping-the-polls): At the heart of the scandal that broke the right-wing coalition government in 2019, the Freedom Party is now riding high.
- [EU enlargement: prospects and challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-enlargement-prospects-and-challenges): The geopolitical impetus behind further EU enlargement meets formidable forces of inertia.
- [Decarbonising the built environment: circularity key](https://www.socialeurope.eu/decarbonising-the-built-environment-circularity-key): The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges.
- [Politically disengaged youth in the former eastern bloc](https://www.socialeurope.eu/politically-disengaged-youth-in-the-former-eastern-bloc): Young people across the eastern-EU member states believe in Europe and universal norms—but their governments turn them off.
- [Europe’s just transition—still out of reach](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-just-transition-still-out-of-reach): If it holds on to ‘green growth’ and tight fiscal constraints, the EU will be unable to negotiate a just transition.
- [Big Toxics and their lobby firepower](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-toxics-and-their-lobby-firepower): The chemical giants outspend even Big Tech and Big Energy on lobbying the EU—and it’s working.
- [Cities harnessing innovation for the circular economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cities-harnessing-innovation-for-the-circular-economy): Cities have the agility to lead the transition to circularity and already have a body of good practice to show.
- [SPÖ: how not to run a leadership contest](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spo-how-not-to-run-a-leadership-contest): The messy struggle for leadership of Austria’s social democrats, Robert Misik writes, nevertheless has echoes for others.
- [How much work is enough?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-much-work-is-enough): Three years of pandemic-related disruptions could herald the most significant labour-market transformation since the dawn of industry.
- [When life gives you lemons, make anti-poverty strategies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-anti-poverty-strategies): As the Porto Social Forum convenes, two years on from the Social Summit there, it’s time to upgrade the EU social agenda.
- [Landmark European ruling on LGBT+ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/landmark-european-ruling-on-lgbt-rights): European same-sex couples have a right to civil unions, Romania and Russia have recently discovered.
- [Turkey: does Kılıçdaroğlu have a path to victory?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/turkey-does-kilicdaroglu-have-a-path-to-victory): The xenophobia from the social-democratic leader since his first-round defeat is unlikely to win him the second.
- [The economic case for affordable housing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-economic-case-for-affordable-housing): Providing affordable housing is not only doing the right thing. There is an economic spinoff for everyone.
- [‘Carbon colonialism’: Europe’s global footprint](https://www.socialeurope.eu/carbon-colonialism-europes-global-footprint): Without a global awareness, Europe’s transition to ‘net zero’ will be a zero-sum game.
- [On the wrong side of Britain’s history](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-the-wrong-side-of-britains-history): ‘National Conservatism’, Paul Mason writes, fails to chime with British national-popular culture.
- [Russia, homophobia and the battle for ‘traditional values’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russia-homophobia-and-the-battle-for-traditional-values): On International Day Against Homophobia, official Russia now demarcates itself very firmly on the other global side.
- [A tale of two countries: Belarus and Lithuania](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-tale-of-two-countries-belarus-and-lithuania): In 1991, Belarus did not join the Baltic states in striking out independently from the Soviet Union. Now the jury is in.
- [Quick commerce—not turning a fast buck](https://www.socialeurope.eu/quick-commerce-not-turning-a-fast-buck): The good news is most ‘q-commerce’ workers have employment contracts. The bad news is they still get squeezed.
- [The discreet (but dubious) charm of tax treaties](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-discreet-but-dubious-charm-of-tax-treaties): Jayati Ghosh writes that, as with much else, bilateral tax treaties binding rich and poor countries are not equal partnerships.
- [Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reconstruction-time-for-transformative-ideas): As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity.
- [EU funds need stronger social conditionality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-funds-need-stronger-social-conditionality): The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners.
- [Not so much a shortage of skills as a shortage of pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/not-so-much-a-shortage-of-skills-as-a-shortage-of-pay): Labour shortages following the pandemic have increased most and are most severe in jobs with lower wages and poorer conditions.
- [Greening eastern Europe’s growth engines](https://www.socialeurope.eu/greening-eastern-europes-growth-engines): The region has moved far too slowly in an era in which decarbonisation and climate resilience are essential.
- [Euronews: public-interest journalism in jeopardy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/euronews-public-interest-journalism-in-jeopardy): Workers and their unions are today sounding the alarm for media independence at the heart of Europe.
- [Steel’s power—and politicians’ lack of mettle](https://www.socialeurope.eu/steels-power-and-politicians-lack-of-mettle): The steel industry’s strategic importance and lobbying power have shielded it from a tightening of the Emissions Trading System.
- [Elevating the Cinderellas of social care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/elevating-the-cinderellas-of-social-care): The pandemic put care workers under terrible pressure, Lisa Pelling writes. Yet unions have been able to win greater recognition for them.
- [Introducing AI at work: workers must be involved](https://www.socialeurope.eu/introducing-ai-at-work-workers-must-be-involved): Rather than being displaced or controlled by AI, workers should be co-designers of its workplace deployment.
- [Europe needs a social compass](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-a-social-compass): Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential.
- [Oh, Europe!?—a vision is still needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/oh-europe-a-vision-is-still-needed): Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.
- [Financing the common good](https://www.socialeurope.eu/financing-the-common-good): The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.
- [How to prevent a housing crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-prevent-a-housing-crisis): The cost-of-living crisis threatens to tip over into a housing crisis. Prevention is better than cure.
- [EIB: dispensing billions to corporate profiteers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eib-dispensing-billions-to-corporate-profiteers): The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.
- [A message for May Day: come together, win change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-message-for-may-day-come-together-win-change): Workers are under tremendous pressure amid the cost-of-living crisis. But trade unions are showing resilience to inspire.
- [Mayday, mayday: a warning from the labour movement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mayday-mayday-a-warning-from-the-labour-movement): Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.
- [How Russians fight](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-russians-fight): Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.
- [Why AI might not take your job, just yet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-ai-might-not-take-your-job-just-yet): Recent developments in artificial intelligence have rekindled fears of technological unemployment—fuelled by technological determinism.
- [Unlocking vacant properties to tackle homelessness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unlocking-vacant-properties-to-tackle-homelessness): Europe’s cities have many social outsiders. Lessons are emerging on how ‘housing first’ can include them.
- [Electricity-market reform: take the ‘market’ out](https://www.socialeurope.eu/electricity-market-reform-take-the-market-out): The European Commission’s proposed reform of the electricity market would be a sticking plaster for a failing system.
- [Generative AI needs more than a light touch](https://www.socialeurope.eu/generative-ai-needs-more-than-a-light-touch): Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.
- [Delegitimising social critique and dissent on the left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/delegitimising-social-critique-and-dissent-on-the-left): Eszter Kováts writes that censoriousness is not the way to deal with legitimate concerns about social-justice claims.
- [The unfulfilled promises of financial regulation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-unfufilled-promises-of-financial-regulation): With further bank failures, tough regulation is urgent, so society is no longer held hostage by finance.
- [Corporate taxation: financing state and welfare](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-taxation-financing-state-and-welfare): Trade unions in Sweden want a more equitable tax system, where companies compete on quality, not tax minimisation.
- [Myanmar: trade unionists in the firing line](https://www.socialeurope.eu/myanmar-trade-unionists-in-the-firing-line): The EU should suspend trade preferences for Myanmar and end support for projects under the military regime.
- [Belarus: support jailed trade unionists](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belarus-support-jailed-trade-unionists): On the anniversary of the imprisonment of Belarus’ union leadership, Europe must renew efforts for the release of political prisoners.
- [Football’s tilted playing-pitch in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/footballs-tilted-playing-pitch-in-europe): The beautiful game is sullied by commodification. Regulation should empower the fans at its heart.
- [The populist-radical-right impact on the welfare state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-populist-radical-right-impact-on-the-welfare-state): Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.
- [Global cities: crucibles of innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/global-cities-crucibles-of-innovation): Urban geographer Ash Amin explains to Robin Wilson why modern metropoles can be hubs of innovation and dynamism.
- [The challenge of instant democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-challenge-of-instant-democracy): We need to find ways, Jan Zielonka writes, to ensure that ‘fast’ democracy is not ‘junk’ democracy.
- [Eradicating long-term unemployment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eradicating-long-term-unemployment): Social enterprises can offer the long-term unemployed an exit from the vicious circle of inactivity, France is showing.
- [Late retirement: possible for many, not for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/late-retirement-possible-for-many-not-for-all): Finland was quick to respond to demographic ageing. What lessons can be learnt from its pension reforms?
- [Feminist governance—here to stay, or gone tomorrow?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/feminist-governance-here-to-stay-or-gone-tomorrow): Since 1975 feminists have helped establish new international frameworks. Success inadvertently sowed the seeds of populist campaigns.
- [Environmental policy: avoiding a social backlash](https://www.socialeurope.eu/environmental-policy-avoiding-a-social-backlash): The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.
- [The promise and peril of generative AI](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-promise-and-peril-of-generative-ai): To ensure tools such as ChatGPT deliver widely shared benefits, we must learn from the last wave of digital innovation.
- [Strengthening democracy at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strengthening-democracy-at-work): The European Commission has just initiated consultation on more effective European Works Councils legislation.
- [E-fuels: a synthetic solution to the real problem](https://www.socialeurope.eu/e-fuels-a-synthetic-solution-to-the-real-problem): The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.
- [The failure of Credit Suisse—not just a one-off](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-failure-of-credit-suisse-not-just-a-one-off): The bank was mismanaged but its collapse, Peter Bofinger writes, reveals a system of regulation with as many holes as a Swiss cheese.
- [After Michel exits, enter Marin?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-michel-exits-enter-marin): Sanna Marin is the right person to preside over the European Council. But would she want to?
- [Ukraine’s relationship with the Belarusian opposition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraines-relationship-with-the-belarusian-opposition): As an ally to both, the European Union can facilitate their mutual understanding and engagement.
- [Tackling staff shortages in health and social care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-staff-shortages-in-health-and-social-care): On World Health Day, lessons learned from workers’ expressions of discontent must be translated into action.
- [Cinderella no more: mental health matters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cinderella-no-more-mental-health-matters): It’s time to move mental health to the top of the European Union policy agenda.
- [Geniuses and ‘mad’ women: culture as mental cauteriser](https://www.socialeurope.eu/geniuses-and-mad-women-culture-as-mental-cauteriser): Women are at the heart of the epidemic of mental ill-health—as healers as well as victims.
- [For a just and democratic climate transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-a-just-and-democratic-climate-transition): The scale of the crises Europe faces requires not only a raising of the policy stakes but a restructuring of its governance.
- [How platform workers show solidarity and organise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-platform-workers-show-solidarity-and-organise): As the economic and political power of platforms soars, platform workers represent an emergent labour movement.
- [Wanted: Vladimir Putin](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wanted-vladimir-putin): Whether Russia’s president ever ends up in handcuffs, the International Criminal Court’s indictment is a big step in the right direction.
- [Professional sovereignty for Europe‘s youth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/professional-sovereignty-for-europes-youth): Transitions from school to work must be improved for individual youngsters. Switzerland shows the way.
- [The good man from Traiskirchen](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-good-man-from-traiskirchen): The Austrian social democrats are heading into a leadership contest, Robert Misik writes. For the SPÖ it could get bumpy.
- [Stress at work: countering Europe’s new pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/stress-at-work-countering-europes-new-pandemic): Occupational stress has become endemic. It damages workers, their families, businesses and economies.
- [Winning in Ukraine, losing the global south?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/winning-in-ukraine-losing-the-global-south): The west’s focus on the war in Ukraine risks a geopolitically counterproductive neglect of the urgent problems of the global south.
- [From imperial paternalism to genuine partnership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-imperial-paternalism-to-genuine-partnership): Europe’s relations with Africa and Asia are on the brink of collapse, and Russia is benefiting.
- [Where is the global south’s rescue brigade?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-is-the-global-souths-rescue-brigade): Many around the world have been left to deal with the effects of the US Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes on their own.
- [Corporate sustainability needs a gender lens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-sustainability-needs-a-gender-lens): The draft EU directive on corporate sustainability remains gender-blind.
- [Beyond industrial policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-industrial-policy): To tackle 21st-century challenges and ensure a sustainable future, we need a policy framework that recognises the value of human connection.
- [Why is France unable to reach social compromises?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-is-france-unable-to-reach-social-compromises): With a tenth general strike in France against the pension reform, an exit is needed from decrees and street clashes towards negotiated governance.
- [Suave Sunak cold comfort for impoverished Britons](https://www.socialeurope.eu/suave-sunak-cold-comfort-for-impoverished-britons): Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.
- [Equal citizenship for persons with disabilities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/equal-citizenship-for-persons-with-disabilities): An ambitious Disability Card is key to making the European Union a reality for people with disabilities.
- [Will this be the last European Gas Conference?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-this-be-the-last-european-gas-conference): The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.
- [Confronting the global water crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/confronting-the-global-water-crisis): To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.
- [Environmental stewardship yes, ‘carbon farming’ no](https://www.socialeurope.eu/environmental-stewardship-yes-carbon-farming-no): Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.
- [Checking the populist tide—for now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/checking-the-populist-tide-for-now): Can the Czech Republic keep bucking the populist trend in central Europe affecting Poland, Slovakia and Hungary?
- [The IRA and European industrial policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ira-and-european-industrial-policy): With the US turning interventionist, the EU will look foolish still backing ‘free markets’. Time for an enterprise policy.
- [The shakeup the World Bank needs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-shakeup-the-world-bank-needs): If Ajay Banga is confirmed as World Bank president he will have to meet the demands of a global south eager for change.
- [Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/separate-and-unequal-gender-segregation-at-work): Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.
- [Will tech layoffs silence or galvanise tech workers?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-tech-layoffs-silence-or-galvanise-tech-workers): Mass layoffs have hit large technology companies. Previously well-paid workers suddenly became the target of brutal firings.
- [Disaster in Greece: when politics goes off the rails](https://www.socialeurope.eu/disaster-in-greece-when-politics-goes-off-the-rails): The government’s efforts to deflect responsibility for the train disaster have failed to contain public outrage.
- [How to promote green industry beyond subsidies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-promote-green-industry-beyond-subsidies): The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.
- [The myth of meritocracy and the populist threat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-myth-of-meritocracy-and-the-populist-threat): Social democrats, Lisa Pelling writes, should abandon the idea of meritocracy if they are to reconnect with les classes populaires.
- [Germany trapped in an unavoidable change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-trapped-in-an-unavoidable-change): Germany has made significant strides to transcend ordoliberal nostra. But huge obstacles still stand in the way of progress.
- [Impartiality and public-service media](https://www.socialeurope.eu/impartiality-and-public-service-media): The media storm in Britain around a television personality speaks volumes about why the UK has become a dysfunctional state.
- [Corporate greenwashing—misusing ‘net zero’ pledges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-greenwashing-misusing-net-zero-pledges): Companies are making ‘carbon neutral’ claims based on dubious emissions offsetting and ‘insetting’—rather than actual cuts.
- [Invisible women—creators, carers and mental health](https://www.socialeurope.eu/invisible-women-creators-carers-and-mental-health): The European mental-health strategy should recognise the burdens women face—and the role of culture in lightening them.
- [How to strengthen women’s resilience to disasters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-strengthen-womens-resilience-to-disasters): Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, whose consequences compound it.
- [A conjured-up polarisation endangers democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-conjured-up-polarisation-endangers-democracy): European societies are less polarised than in the United States—and than we are led to believe.
- [Consultants and the crisis of capitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/consultants-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism): Growing reliance on big consultancies is stunting state capacity and undermining democratic accountability.
- [Making the most of the European Year of Skills](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-the-most-of-the-european-year-of-skills): Learning to learn must be embedded in working life, Sofia Fernandes writes, if the EU is to meet social and economic goals.
- [What’s driving the social crisis in France](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whats-driving-the-social-crisis-in-france): The huge demonstrations against the pension ‘reform’ stem from accumulating resentment under Emmanuel Macron.
- [Sustainable competitiveness needs a social dimension](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sustainable-competitiveness-needs-a-social-dimension): Glancing across the Atlantic, austerity and deregulation will make Europe neither competitive nor green.
- [How the banking lobby diluted EU regulation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-banking-lobby-diluted-eu-regulation): EU institutions have taken a position weakening international standards and risking bank stability.
- [When radical zealotry meets the polarising populists](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-radical-zealotry-meets-the-polarising-populists): Some activist-scholars, Eszter Kováts writes, have turned social justice into a latter-day religion, with perverse effects.
- [Workforce strategy the priority in social care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workforce-strategy-the-priority-in-social-care): Training the workforce is central to attracting and retaining staff in quality social care.
- [The only way to end the war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-only-way-to-end-the-war): The EU must not only ensure that Ukraine can attain a just and lasting peace but support the embedding of universal norms.
- [Pandemic preparedness: new vaccines are not enough](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pandemic-preparedness-new-vaccines-are-not-enough): Rapid deployment of vaccines is the key lesson being taken from the Covid-19 pandemic. It should not be the only one.
- [Platforms and their presumptions of power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-and-their-presumptions-of-power): Whether the presumption of employment would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate.
- [Social dialogue: still a fuzzy conversation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-still-a-fuzzy-conversation): The European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making.
- [The European Union at war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-union-at-war): How can a civilian power such as the EU, Jan Zielonka asks, contend with uncivilised behaviour?
- [Asylum: the EU’s misplaced moral compass](https://www.socialeurope.eu/asylum-the-eus-misplaced-moral-compass): The measures taken by the EU on asylum should be guided by a lawful and sincere humanitarianism.
- [‘You mean the prison?’: displaced people on Samos](https://www.socialeurope.eu/you-mean-the-prison-displaced-people-on-samos): The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.
- [Belarusian trade unionists take refuge in Germany](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belarusian-trade-unionists-take-refuge-in-germany): Exiled trade unionists continue their work, hoping to return to Belarus one day to rebuild their society.
- [The global AI race—it’s time to slow down](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-global-ai-race-its-time-to-slow-down): The world’s largest companies cannot be given free rein in their competition to capitalise artificial intelligence.
- [Can the west woo Africa?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-west-woo-africa): The west’s lack of engagement with Africa in recent years left behind a vacuum China and Russia have eagerly filled.
- [Road transport in Europe: drivers from third countries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/road-transport-in-europe-drivers-from-third-countries): Transport of goods is the new slave-producing machine in Europe—a powerful tool for social dumping.
- [The role of public debt in the ‘new normal’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-role-of-public-debt-in-the-new-normal): A Schumpeterian perspective provides new insights for fiscal policy in Europe, Peter Bofinger writes.
- [Green subsidies: what about the global south?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-subsidies-what-about-the-global-south): The new green race between the United States and the European Union threatens to leave developing countries behind.
- [Protecting health workers from hazardous products](https://www.socialeurope.eu/protecting-health-workers-from-hazardous-products): There is more clarity about hazardous medicinal products but awareness still needs to be raised to protect workers.
- [Options for Europe’s ‘geopolitical’ future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/options-for-europes-geopolitical-future): Global challenges have left only one option off the table for the European Union—inertia.
- [Reviving democracy in a fragmented Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reviving-democracy-in-a-fragmented-europe): Addressing economic inequality is key to restoring political participation and democratic legitimacy.
- [EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-social-agenda-beyond-2024-no-time-to-waste): As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda.
- [Pension reform in Germany—a market solution?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pension-reform-in-germany-a-market-solution): The proposal for an equity reserve will not solve the challenge of making pensions sustainable.
- [The new European civil war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-european-civil-war): However the war in Ukraine ends, a new iron curtain will follow unless the EU lives up to its ‘geopolitical’ aspirations.
- [Europe’s stars must shine for artists and creatives](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-stars-must-shine-for-artists-and-creatives): A Spanish decree to provide more security for artists and other cultural workers should accelerate EU-level action.
- [Europe’s industry and the ecological transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-industry-and-the-ecological-transition): Tackling deindustrialisation and degradation requires not a technological fix but a political alternative.
- [Social dialogue in central and eastern Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-in-central-and-eastern-europe): Union recognition can be a tough battle in EU member states in central and eastern Europe.
- [Military secrets and the World Trade Organization](https://www.socialeurope.eu/military-secrets-and-the-world-trade-organization): A world at peace depends on making knowledge which could be of military as well as commercial value a public good.
- [Europe’s energy transition starts to speed up](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-energy-transition-starts-to-speed-up): When Russia invaded Ukraine, many feared Europe’s green-energy transition would be collateral damage. Far from it.
- [Setting standards for national equality bodies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/setting-standards-for-national-equality-bodies): Advancing gender equality in the EU depends on strong equality bodies in the member states.
- [The left and freedom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-left-and-freedom): Democratic socialists must take back the concept of freedom from the libertarians, Robert Misik writes.
- [Flooded Pakistan, symbol of climate injustice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/flooded-pakistan-symbol-of-climate-injustice): The $9 billion promised to Pakistan is only a sticking plaster until the west acknowledges the dire climate legacy in south Asia.
- [Homelessness among asylum-seekers in Brussels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/homelessness-among-asylum-seekers-in-brussels): The ‘securitisation’ of migration and asylum has not only meant drownings in the Mediterranean but also destitution in Europe’s cities.
- [Towards a permanent EU investment fund](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-a-permanent-eu-investment-fund): Meeting the EU’s climate and energy goals will mean ramping up public investment via a permanent fund.
- [Embedding sustainability in a government programme](https://www.socialeurope.eu/embedding-sustainability-in-a-government-programme): Sustainable development is a global task largely to be delivered by national governments. What can they learn from the leader—Finland?
- [Social dialogue must be at the heart of Europe’s future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-must-be-at-the-heart-of-europes-future): This week the European Commission will publish a proposal to revivify social dialogue. It must be more than words.
- [What it means when Jacinda Ardern calls time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-it-means-when-jacinda-ardern-calls-time): Jacinda Ardern’s resignation reflects the tough headwinds young progressive women face as political leaders.
- [Behind Britain’s strike wave](https://www.socialeurope.eu/behind-britains-strike-wave): The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.
- [Labour conflicts in the digital age](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labour-conflicts-in-the-digital-age): Digitalisation is not technologically determined but socially shaped—including by new forms of collective action.
- [Unions are giving workers a European voice in the crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unions-are-giving-workers-a-european-voice-in-the-crisis): Trade unions have been winning battles across Europe to halt the erosion of real wages but can’t win this war alone.
- [Corporate power: arbitrage in a fractured world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-power-arbitrage-in-a-fractured-world): At Davos the corporate elite are discussing a more co-operative world—yet their arbitrage relies on its rifts.
- [Making labour law fit for all those who labour](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-labour-law-fit-for-all-those-who-labour): EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.
- [Arms exports and human rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/arms-exports-and-human-rights): The EU makes a difference on whether arms exports are governed by values or interests—but it could do more.
- [How not to deal with a debt crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-not-to-deal-with-a-debt-crisis): Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.
- [Will NextGenerationEU assist Europe’s cohesion?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-nextgenerationeu-assist-europes-cohesion): Addressing Europe’s huge challenges requires treating Europe as more than the sum of its national parts.
- [Visentini, ‘Fight Impunity’, the ITUC and Qatar](https://www.socialeurope.eu/visentini-fight-impunity-the-ituc-and-qatar): With the ITUC General Council due to meet tomorrow, answers are urgently needed to the deeper issues raised by this affair.
- [Gendering labour time—regulating domestic work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gendering-labour-time-regulating-domestic-work): Too few countries have ratified the ILO convention on domestic work. Too many don’t see the need.
- [War in the time of digital platforms](https://www.socialeurope.eu/war-in-the-time-of-digital-platforms): The war in Ukraine has highlighted how states and platforms are increasingly in military lock-step.
- [Ukraine: the risk of ‘refugee fatigue’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-the-risk-of-refugee-fatigue): To counter Russian disinformation and take on populist parties, European politicians should shape the debate around Ukrainian refugees.
- [Nicaragua: from liberation to a new dictatorship](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nicaragua-from-liberation-to-a-new-dictatorship): Lisa Pelling’s parents moved to Nicaragua to support the revolution. Its leader, she writes, has turned it into a tyranny.
- [EPC: an idea whose time has not come](https://www.socialeurope.eu/epc-an-idea-whose-time-has-not-come): The European Political Community will be a distraction, at best, in the institutional architecture of the continent.
- [An annual check-up for the climate movement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-annual-check-up-for-the-climate-movement): The world made some progress in 2022 on climate change and protecting nature but entrenched interests remain to be overcome.
- [Remaking a rules-based world order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/remaking-a-rules-based-world-order): In an increasingly insecure world, Europe should sponsor a renewal of rules-based multilateralism.
- [Democracy and the future of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-and-the-future-of-work): Anxiety about the state of democracy amid political polarisation should direct us to an unexpected answer—economic citizenship.
- [North Kosovo: time to turn to civil society](https://www.socialeurope.eu/north-kosovo-time-to-turn-to-civil-society): The explosive tensions of recent weeks have exposed the limits of the dialogue brokered by the European Union.
- [Pay transparency yes, but we need more for equal pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pay-transparency-yes-but-we-need-more-for-equal-pay): The gender pay gap is stubborn because several factors underpin it. Action is needed on all of them.
- [A feminist view of working-time reductions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-feminist-view-of-working-time-reductions): Reducing working time is necessary to decouple work from growth. Well designed, it could redistribute care more evenly.
- [‘Gaslighting’ Europe on fossil fuels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gaslighting-europe-on-fossil-fuels): Documents from the International Gas Union have revealed the strategy of disinformation pursued by the powerful lobby.
- [Legal challenges by NGOs, citizens key to climate battle](https://www.socialeurope.eu/legal-challenges-by-ngos-citizens-key-to-climate-battle): Strong climate governance means holding governments to account. The EU institutions have shied away from doing so.
- [Biodiversity: the EU and the race against time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/biodiversity-the-eu-and-the-race-against-time): The EU’s Nature Restoration Law must implement key COP15 outcomes on biodiversity—in very short order.
- [The final countdown: the EU, Poland and the rule of law](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-final-countdown-the-eu-poland-and-the-rule-of-law): Faced with financial and political pressures at home, Poland is inching closer to rule-of-law reforms.
- [Romania and Bulgaria stuck in EU’s second tier](https://www.socialeurope.eu/romania-and-bulgaria-stuck-in-eus-second-tier): The vetoing of Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen zone sent bad signals to the south-eastern EU member states.
- [The digital euro: a flawed concept doomed to flop](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-euro-a-flawed-concept-doomed-to-flop): Peter Bofinger argues that on the ‘digital euro’ the European Central Bank has dug itself into a hole it would do best to vacate.
- [ECB lobbies for banks, instead of supervising them](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ecb-lobbies-for-banks-instead-of-supervising-them): The ECB has taken upon itself to challenge the Spanish government over a temporary tax on the profits of commercial banks.
- [After ‘Qatargate’: how to protect democracy in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-qatargate-how-to-protect-democracy-in-the-eu): The Gulf state’s pursuit of influence shines a light on a systemic problem for the EU—and it’s not a good look.
- [Social-ecological public procurement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-ecological-public-procurement): The vast sums disbursed in procurement and subsidies by public institutions must lever good work amid the green transition.
- [Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/avoiding-carbon-leakage-adjustments-needed): The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.
- [Europe-wide inequality during the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-wide-inequality-during-the-pandemic): The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.
- [Citizens need clarity on Europe’s challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/citizens-need-clarity-on-europes-challenges): A cocktail of insecurity, misinformation and mistrust imperil Europe’s future. Reliable, accessible data are at a premium.
- [EU-Africa relations need a new strategy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-africa-relations-need-a-new-strategy): Deeper and more systemic relations between the European Union and Africa, Nicoletta Pirozzi writes, would benefit both continents.
- [Health and care workers have had enough](https://www.socialeurope.eu/health-and-care-workers-have-had-enough): Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.
- [Taxing super-profits to beat inflation, defend rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-super-profits-to-beat-inflation-defend-rights): Pandemics, wars and recessions do not exempt states from human-rights commitments. They must tax multinationals and the richest more to protect the most vulnerable.
- [Political leaders sabotaging corporate sustainability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/political-leaders-sabotaging-corporate-sustainability): EU member-state governments have flinched at the challenge of enforcing responsible business conduct.
- [Exclusion of women could end up costing our planet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/exclusion-of-women-could-end-up-costing-our-planet): COP27 in Egypt was massively dominated by male leaders. Yet African women are key agents in battling climate change.
- [Inflation: free markets or freeriding?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inflation-free-markets-or-freeriding): Companies with market power are increasing prices beyond rising energy costs—because they can.
- [Global income inequality: time to revise the elephant](https://www.socialeurope.eu/global-income-inequality-time-to-revise-the-elephant): New data on inequality show probably the greatest reshuffling of world incomes since the industrial revolution, Branko Milanovic writes.
- [Unpacking self-employment ‘flexibility’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unpacking-self-employment-flexibility): Platform companies trumpet the ‘freedom’ their ‘independent contractors’ enjoy. They misrepresent what freedom is.
- [Making women with disabilities visible](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-women-with-disabilities-visible): Unemployed, underpaid, excluded—women with disabilities remain invisible in social policies related to employment.
- [Accessibility can improve everyone’s lives](https://www.socialeurope.eu/accessibility-can-improve-everyones-lives): In a digitalised world, accessibility is ever more at a premium for the visually impaired—who should be involved in finding solutions.
- [Killing Twitter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/killing-twitter): Elon Musk claims he bought the platform to ‘help humanity’ by investing in a public good—the world’s digital town square. But the people, not the pavement, make the town square.
- [Injustice is fuelling Europe’s energy crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/injustice-is-fuelling-europes-energy-crisis): Europe needs to shift from a system locked into climate-wrecking fuels, extractivism and autocracies—towards ‘energy justice’.
- [Europe’s 2050 mission to a future-fit economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-2050-mission-to-a-future-fit-economy): The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership and unshackled public investment.
- [European Child Guarantee: making it a reality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-child-guarantee-making-it-a-reality): Portugal, whose national plan is launched today, offers a model for a transversal and localised approach.
- [Today’s far right and the echoes from history](https://www.socialeurope.eu/todays-far-right-and-the-echoes-from-history): Robert Misik argues today’s extreme right is sponsoring a brutalisation comparable to historical fascism.
- [Time to confront Europe’s rogue state—Hungary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-confront-europes-rogue-state-hungary): For the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the European Union is the enemy, not Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
- [Progress and setbacks from COP27](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progress-and-setbacks-from-cop27): The European Union cannot rely on the United Nations process to deliver and must reinforce its own climate efforts.
- [Energy bills: direct payments needed, not fossil subsidies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/energy-bills-direct-payments-needed-not-fossil-subsidies): Subsidising high energy costs might seem the obvious answer to the cost-of-living crisis—but it’s not.
- [Pre-empting the coming world war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pre-empting-the-coming-world-war): Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces.
- [Europe’s winter of change: break-up or breakthrough?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-winter-of-change): This winter, the European Union is facing a multidimensional crisis which could exacerbate intra-EU divisions and power asymmetries.
- [The monetary tightening trap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-monetary-tightening-trap): The over-reliance on interest-rate increases will likely lead to economic disaster in low- and middle-income countries.
- [What Lula must do](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-lula-must-do): Facing a deeply divided country and mounting global crises, Brazil’s president-elect has his work cut out.
- [Pay gaps between firms driving wage inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pay-gaps-between-firms-driving-wage-inequality): Inter-firm differences are not only widening wage gaps but also threaten wider social division among workers.
- [Setting human-rights due diligence back on track](https://www.socialeurope.eu/setting-human-rights-due-diligence-back-on-track): A carve-out for the finance sector would water down the ambition of the EU’s human-rights due-diligence legislation.
- [Interest-rate rises versus the public interest](https://www.socialeurope.eu/interest-rate-rises-versus-the-public-interest): In going along with rate rises, European governments are saving the European Central Bank—not their societies.
- [The most wonderful time of the year](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year): The splurge of Christmas consumerism, especially in Britain, Kate Pickett writes, is partly driven by status anxiety.
- [Almost-new fiscal rules for an old Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/almost-new-fiscal-rules-for-an-old-europe): The proposed new fiscal rules may represent modest steps from the status quo. But they are in the right direction.
- [Listening in on the lives of others](https://www.socialeurope.eu/listening-in-on-the-lives-of-others): ‘National security’ has become the new excuse to spy on political opponents and journalists in Europe.
- [General strike in Belgium](https://www.socialeurope.eu/general-strike-in-belgium): Belgian trade union confederations this week led strikes and other actions to challenge the impact of inflation on purchasing power.
- [Using common strengths to overcome the crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/playing-on-common-strengths-to-overcome-the-crisis): Europe needs to move from fear of the ‘moral hazard’ of fiscal co-operation to confidence in its collective benefits.
- [How to reform the European fiscal rules](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-reform-the-european-fiscal-rules): The fiscal rules have been in abeyance with the pandemic. What will replace them is up for grabs.
- [Now is the future for social security](https://www.socialeurope.eu/now-is-the-future-for-social-security): In a Europe of increasingly non-standard employment, social protection for all is more rather than less imperative.
- [The entrepreneurial state must lead on climate change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-entrepreneurial-state-must-lead-on-climate-change): As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proved unequal to the task of climate leadership.
- [A European initiative for a global green deal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-initiative-for-a-global-green-deal): COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.
- [Putting politics back in charge of the economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/putting-politics-back-in-charge-of-the-economy): In the neoliberal era, economics marginalised the social sciences. But, Sheri Berman writes, only politics can tame capitalism’s chaotic gyrations.
- [Global environmental governance: reform urgent](https://www.socialeurope.eu/global-environmental-governance-reform-urgent): As COP27 opens in Egypt while famine sweeps Somalia, an outcome-based approach to climate change must replace the appearance of action.
- [Shrink finance, save the planet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shrink-finance-save-the-planet): It will take more than sustainable-finance rules to summon the investment required for the socio-ecological transformation.
- [Does the European Care Strategy care about disability?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-the-european-care-strategy-care-about-disability): The European Commission’s initiative on long-term care addresses disability yet ignores key aspects of international law.
- [Getting out of the coal black hole](https://www.socialeurope.eu/getting-out-of-the-coal-black-hole): Europe can replace all Russian fossil-fuel imports with clean solutions by 2025—but only if it avoids the coal trap.
- [Bolsonarism after Bolsonaro](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bolsonarism-after-bolsonaro): While Jair Bolsonaro has been voted out of office, the forces that empowered him retain considerable influence.
- [Does the minimum-wages directive get it right?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-the-minimum-wages-directive-get-it-right): Are statutory minimum wages or collective-bargaining coverage the answer to low pay? Both, actually.
- [Grappling with power imbalances](https://www.socialeurope.eu/grappling-with-power-imbalances): In a world of interlocking crises, Jayati Ghosh finds an antidote to despair in the potential of mobilisation for a new eco-social contract.
- [From ‘green growth’ to a ‘good life’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-green-growth-to-a-good-life): The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.
- [A green growth and innovation paradigm](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-green-growth-and-innovation-paradigm): Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.
- [War’s impact on Ukraine’s child-focused workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wars-impact-on-ukraines-child-focused-workers): Not only have many children been traumatised by the Russian invasion. Some of their carers and teachers have too.
- [Organising and bargaining in the platform economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/organising-and-bargaining-in-the-platform-economy): Unions have the capacities to mobilise and represent platform workers and connected workforces in non-standard work forms.
- [Mental health in a digital world of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mental-health-in-a-digital-world-of-work): A crisis of wellbeing is invisibly surging in the digital economy. As with the coronavirus, Europe needs to get a grip on it.
- [Cost-of-living emergency: Europe needs radical steps](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cost-of-living-emergency-europe-needs-radical-steps): Measures advanced by trade unions, and trade union involvement, will be key to getting through this crisis.
- [Beyond the politics of ‘us’ and ‘them’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-the-politics-of-us-and-them): In a world that is ever more interconnected it is essential to question naturalised dividing lines and build solidarity.
- [Occupations, respect and social status](https://www.socialeurope.eu/occupations-respect-and-social-status): ‘Respect’ was a motif of the successful electoral campaign by Germany’s social-democratic leader, Olaf Scholz, in 2021. What’s at stake?
- [The left must embrace fiscal restructuring](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-left-must-embrace-fiscal-restructuring): A raft of new instruments are required to address the rentier capitalism of today and the threat to the ecosphere.
- [Government by finger-pointing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/government-by-finger-pointing): The new Swedish government, Lisa Pelling writes, is obsessed with stigmatising immigrants and refugees.
- [Ten years for a small but important step for women](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ten-years-for-a-small-but-important-step-for-women): European Union institutions at long last finalise a directive to put more women on company boards.
- [Combating inflation: the case for one-off wealth taxes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/combating-inflation-the-case-for-one-off-wealth-taxes): Monetary tightening only risks recession, whereas fiscal measures can set Europe on a sustainable recovery path.
- [Constitutional moments: Chile and Iceland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/constitutional-moments-chile-and-iceland): Some perspective on the referendum defeat for Chile’s draft constitution comes from a different quarter—Iceland.
- [Asbestos: eradicating the hidden killer](https://www.socialeurope.eu/asbestos-eradicating-the-hidden-killer): Workers facing asbestos exposure need much more protection—through tighter limits and proper equipment and protocols.
- [Four legs good, two legs better?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/four-legs-good-two-legs-better): It’s time to stop handing over the keys of state administrations to generalist private consultancy firms.
- [A noble award for a ‘popular misconception’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-noble-award-for-a-popular-misconception): Peter Bofinger questions last week’s award of a prestigious economics prize to an orthodox school which could not anticipate the 2008 crash.
- [‘Greedflation’: who wins, who loses?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/greedflation-who-wins-who-loses): With inflation driven largely by corporate rent-seeking, rather than suppressing wage claims windfall profits must be taxed.
- [Realising Europe’s geopolitical vocation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/realising-europes-geopolitical-vocation): Can the European Political Community be the backbone of a new European security architecture? Nicoletta Pirozzi asks.
- [The Kremlin’s suicidal imperialism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-kremlins-suicidal-imperialism): The more apparent it is that Russia is losing, the more forcefully Vladimir Putin declares that it is not.
- [Achieving wage justice in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/achieving-wage-justice-in-europe): Making public contracts for private firms conditional on collective agreements can help stem the falling labour share.
- [Green Deal: the light at the end of the crisis tunnel](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-deal-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-crisis-tunnel): The faster we deploy the European Green Deal, the quicker we become crisis-proof. Brussels must resist siren calls for inertia.
- [Toward a progressive economic agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/toward-a-progressive-economic-agenda): To win power, progressive leaders must articulate a coherent economic policy, focusing not only on redistribution but also value creation.
- [Regulating platform work in Europe: a work in progress](https://www.socialeurope.eu/regulating-platform-work-in-europe-a-work-in-progress): Divergences between the European Commission and the European Parliament reveal the real challenges of regulating the platform economy.
- [Health and safety: Europe’s patchy commitment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/health-and-safety-europes-patchy-commitment): The European Union must stop compromising on the fundamental right of workers to health and safety.
- [From ‘free-market’ to subsidised capitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-free-market-to-subsidised-capitalism): To deal with the climate crisis, governments must recognise that only the state has allowed the last three crises to be contained.
- [Tackling the roots of gender-based violence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-the-roots-of-gender-based-violence): A new declaration based on the Istanbul convention carries forward the struggle against a pervasive social phenomenon.
- [Towards social sustainability: a social taxonomy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-social-sustainability-a-social-taxonomy): A ‘social taxonomy’ should be developed as a counterpart to the green investment taxonomy, with comprehensive employee involvement.
- [Does the United Nations still exist?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-the-united-nations-still-exist): Branko Milanovic charts the fall and fall of the organisation tasked with preserving world peace.
- [EU must act to stop refugee pushbacks in Greece](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-must-act-to-stop-refugee-pushbacks-in-greece): Lack of action has allowed Greece to build a dark system of pushbacks, surveillance and other fundamental rights violations.
- [Turkey: from polarisation to pluralism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/turkey-from-polarisation-to-pluralism): Could an Alevi social democrat defeat the authoritarian Erdoğan in next year’s election?
- [Reclaim your space through lesbian resistance!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reclaim-your-space-through-lesbian-resistance): Lesbian feminists gather today for a conference in Budapest facing a ‘gender ideology’ backlash.
- [Children a conflict’s most vulnerable victims](https://www.socialeurope.eu/children-a-conflicts-most-vulnerable-victims): Europe must put children first in its response to the conflict in Ukraine.
- [Italy’s election: a far-right high, on a low budget](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italys-election-a-far-right-high-on-a-low-budget): The honeymoon for a Meloni-led, right-wing government may prove to be shortlived.
- [Climate change: what Europeans think](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-change-what-europeans-think): The latest European Social Survey shows rising concern about climate change. But is it enough?
- [Reasonable left, irresponsible right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reasonable-left-irresponsible-right): Amid burgeoning crises, Robert Misik writes, the left finds itself assuming the mantle of responsibility.
- [Tackling forced labour—without the labourers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-forced-labour-without-the-labourers): Simply banning products made with forced labour won’t help the workers affected.
- [Sweden: less special than it was](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sweden-less-special-than-it-was): The political centre of gravity in Sweden has shifted to the conservative pole.
- [Italy’s elections: a perpetual political logic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italys-elections-a-perpetual-political-logic): Behind the anticipated far-right victory in Sunday’s elections lie trends of wider concern.
- [Belgium: heat rising over cost of living](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belgium-heat-rising-over-cost-of-living): Thousands of workers join a union rally in Brussels to defend their purchasing power.
- [Failing the pandemic-preparedness test](https://www.socialeurope.eu/failing-the-pandemic-preparedness-test): The G20’s pandemic-preparedness fund risks becoming just another burdensome distraction.
- [Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fresh-start-truss-faces-a-sudden-stop): The UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared.
- [Health and social care: staff shortages critical](https://www.socialeurope.eu/health-and-social-care-staff-shortages-critical): Clapping key workers was one thing—Europe needs to recruit and retain more of them.
- [Ukrainian women in Poland—an insecure sanctuary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukrainian-women-in-poland-an-insecure-sanctuary): Poland’s welcome doesn’t mitigate the upheaval and labour gaps facing refugees.
- [How can we build an international labour court?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-can-we-build-an-international-labour-court): Multinationals dominate the economy but no global body defends workers in supply chains.
- [Children’s rights—delivering the Child Guarantee](https://www.socialeurope.eu/childrens-rights-delivering-the-child-guarantee): Social services must be central if the Child Guarantee is to deliver for vulnerable children.
- [The explicable non-death of neoliberalism in Chile](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-explicable-non-death-of-neoliberalism-in-chile): The rejection of the new constitution in a referendum has deep historical traces.
- [Tourism in southern Europe: potential and perils](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tourism-in-southern-europe-potential-and-perils): The return of tourists to southern Europe’s squeezed resorts is not an unmixed blessing.
- [Is ESG the solution to climate and social ills?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-esg-the-solution-to-climate-and-social-ills): Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.
- [Here we go again …](https://www.socialeurope.eu/here-we-go-again): The cost-of-living crisis, Kate Pickett writes, follows a familiar path of hugely unequal burdens.
- [The political struggle over reality in Sweden](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-political-struggle-over-reality-in-sweden): Elections come amid sweeping claims from the (far) right about a Sweden in decline.
- [Where is the French left going?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-is-the-french-left-going): Beyond the new electoral formation, a potential avenue is open to democratise work.
- [Who cares for the carers?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-cares-for-the-carers): The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.
- [Who guards the guardians in Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-guards-the-guardians-in-europe): Judges are taking action, since EU institutions have failed to uphold the rule of law.
- [Trade unions on the frontline in the cost-of-living crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-on-the-frontline-in-the-cost-of-living-crisis): Defending workers’ living standards has become trade unions’ primary concern.
- [Are workers going to pay the bill for Putin’s war?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/are-workers-going-to-pay-the-bill-for-putins-war): Real wages could fall by 2.9 per cent in the European Union in 2022.
- [Enclosing the internet—Big Tech’s cloud cover](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enclosing-the-internet-big-techs-cloud-cover): Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.
- [Who is to blame? Citizens, elites and democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-is-to-blame-citizens-elites-and-democracy): If there is a crisis of democracy, look up at leaders rather than down at citizens to find it.
- [Progressive taxation for a renewed social contract](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progressive-taxation-for-a-renewed-social-contract): A new social-democratic era requires a return to the steep postwar tax gradient.
- [Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/municipalities-can-overcome-europes-fossil-fuel-addiction): Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
- [The greatest democrat Russia ever had](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-greatest-democrat-russia-ever-had): Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia’s last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.
- [The life and death of Italian centrism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-life-and-death-of-italian-centrism): Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.
- [Deinstitutionalising disabled people—making it happen](https://www.socialeurope.eu/deinstitutionalising-disabled-people-making-it-happen): Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.
- [Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel](https://www.socialeurope.eu/vehicles-and-just-transition-turning-the-wheel): Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.
- [Blurring of boundaries in work’s ‘new normal’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/blurring-of-boundaries-in-works-new-normal): The good news is that ‘hybrid’ working favours employee self-determination. The bad news is it’s hard to keep work at bay.
- [‘Whatever it takes’, ten years on](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whatever-it-takes-ten-years-on): A decade ago Mario Draghi helped save the euro and the EU. Yet the lessons have still fully to sink in.
- [Effective pandemic response must be truly global](https://www.socialeurope.eu/effective-pandemic-response-must-be-truly-global): The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.
- [Dealing with inflation, really](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dealing-with-inflation-really): Jayati Ghosh bemoans the economics profession’s inability to think beyond crude analyses of inflation—and crude policies to stem it.
- [European women’s football—still a cold-war divide](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-womens-football-still-a-cold-war-divide): Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?
- [The productivity slowdown, inflation and austerity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-productivity-slowdown-inflation-and-austerity): Calls for the ECB to raise rates to stem inflation have missed the negative impact of ‘structural reforms’ of labour markets on innovation.
- [European union leaders on the fight for democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-union-leaders-on-the-fight-for-democracy): As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism.
- [How to restore workers’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-restore-workers-rights): The grim statistics on workers’ rights will only be righted if global standards are properly enforced.
- [Draghi’s resignation: what next?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/draghis-resignation-what-next): Only one political figure will benefit from chaos in Italy. He is in Moscow, not Rome.
- [Paving the way for radicalised violence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/paving-the-way-for-radicalised-violence): Mainstream politicians, Lisa Pelling writes, must recognise that their words have consequences.
- [Politicians should stop the ‘Uberisation’ of EU politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/politicians-should-stop-the-uberisation-of-eu-politics): The Uber Files contain a fearful reference to a European NGO. One of its campaigners responds.
- [The Uber Files—a wake-up call for the EU institutions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-uber-files-a-wake-up-call-for-the-eu-institutions): The huge challenges facing the EU can only be met if citizens are confident it acts in the public interest.
- [Achieving Earth for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/achieving-earth-for-all): Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.
- [Building just-transition policies out of fossil misery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-just-transition-policies-out-of-fossil-misery): Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.
- [The paradox of Polish migration policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-paradox-of-polish-migration-policy): Poland has opened its border with Ukraine to war refugees. Not so at another border, with Belarus.
- [Labour shortages offer trade unions valuable opportunity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labour-shortages-offer-trade-unions-valuable-opportunity): A ‘tight’ labour market is not such a bad thing for trade unions—and therefore for workers.
- [Inflation: saving households from insolvency](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inflation-saving-households-from-insolvency): Peter Bofinger argues that state guarantees of loans to households could cushion the price shock at negligible cost.
- [Disability: EU funding of institutions barely legal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/disability-eu-funding-of-institutions-barely-legal): Is the European Commission complying with the UN convention on disability vis-à-vis funding institutions from the EU budget?
- [The coming green-hydrogen revolution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-green-hydrogen-revolution): A green revolution of low-cost energy for all keeps our future secure from global heating—and dictators.
- [Short-time working: lessons for the next recession](https://www.socialeurope.eu/short-time-working-lessons-for-the-next-recession): Best practices in short-time working can prepare for the looming downturn.
- [Tackling inflation from a pro-poor standpoint](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-inflation-from-a-pro-poor-standpoint): Easements of the impact of inflation will still leave the poorest losing ground. Positive pro-poor policies are needed.
- [EU foreign & security policy: flexibility and leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-foreign-and-security-policy-flexibility-and-leadership): Nicoletta Pirozzi argues that to mitigate its foreign policy dysfunctionalities the EU needs to end the unanimity requirement.
- [Airport chaos: security guards and cleaners still key](https://www.socialeurope.eu/airport-chaos-security-guards-and-cleaners-still-key): The ‘key’ workers of the pandemic need sustained recognition. The chaos at airports shows what happens otherwise.
- [Minimum-wages directive—history in the making](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wages-directive-history-in-the-making): The directive fundamentally strengthens collective bargaining and trade union power.
- [Don’t cancel Russian culture](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dont-cancel-russian-culture): Refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change Putin’s calculations, let alone impel him to withdraw from Ukraine.
- [Growing out of inflation: a new supply-side policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/growing-out-of-inflation-a-new-supply-side-policy): Reining in demand via monetary policy will not solve a supply problem.
- [European Roma and a new social Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-roma-and-a-new-social-europe): The establishment of a Roma foundation provides an opportunity for a deep dialogue on the route from marginalisation to inclusion.
- [Clean power by 2035](https://www.socialeurope.eu/clean-power-by-2035): A clean, expanded power system can be achieved in Europe by 2035—at no extra cost above stated plans.
- [EU carbon border tax could hurt developing countries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-carbon-border-tax-could-hurt-developing-countries): Europe should mitigate the protectionist threat in its climate agenda.
- [Ensuring adequate minimum wages in an age of inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ensuring-adequate-minimum-wages-in-an-age-of-inflation): Minimum wages have risen across Europe this year. Inflation is eroding them.
- [China to the rescue?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/china-to-the-rescue): Who could soften the apocalyptic effects of the war in Ukraine on the global south? China could, says Branko Milanovic.
- [Public services should not be the victims of inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-services-should-not-be-the-victims-of-inflation): On UN Public Service Day, many public-service workers and the services they provide remain needlessly impoverished.
- [Let’s count what really matters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lets-count-what-really-matters): Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP.
- [Ukraine and the geopolitics of the energy transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-energy-transition): The worst scenario of an ‘unjust transition’ has hoved into view with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But another Europe is possible.
- [From subsidising energy to reducing dependence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-subsidising-energy-to-reducing-dependence): The only answer to energy price inflation is to reduce energy needs and dependence on fossil fuels, prioritising those on low incomes.
- [A social-democratic decade ahead?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-social-democratic-decade-ahead): Now Austria’s SPÖ too has left its competitors far behind, Robert Misik asks: is the Zeitgeist moving to the left?
- [Why we are on Brussels’ streets](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-we-are-on-brussels-streets): Tens of thousands of Belgian workers today demand better wages and purchasing power.
- [Working from a distance: remote or removed?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/working-from-a-distance-remote-or-removed): Remote work will outlast the pandemic. But workers must be inoculated against the risks.
- [Blindspots in free movement lead to homelessness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/blindspots-in-free-movement-lead-to-homelessness): Mobile EU citizens can fall through national safety nets.
- [The urgent need for a post-growth society](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-urgent-need-for-a-post-growth-society): Converting to an economy based on need rather than accumulation is not just an ecological imperative but a social desideratum.
- [Von der Leyen is losing ground](https://www.socialeurope.eu/von-der-leyen-is-losing-ground): If the European Union does not stand up for the rule of law in Poland and Hungary, it will embolden authoritarians everywhere.
- [Boris Johnson: blustering on](https://www.socialeurope.eu/boris-johnson-blustering-on): The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those … in the European Union.
- [Why countries should scrap the Energy Charter Treaty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-countries-should-scrap-the-energy-charter-treaty): The treaty stands in the way of signatories implementing the IEA’s exhortation to stop investing in fossil fuels.
- [Climate and security—never more closely linked](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-and-security-never-more-closely-linked): Far from reversing EU action on climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has boosted a wave of more ambitious policies.
- [A new Atlantic Charter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-atlantic-charter): Ending the war in Ukraine and establishing a lasting peace in Europe require a new security architecture.
- [Getting deglobalisation right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/getting-deglobalisation-right): This year’s gathering of business and political elites in Davos recognised a basic truth—without reckoning with past mistakes.
- [Ukraine re-emphasises need to combat human trafficking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-re-emphasises-need-to-combat-human-trafficking): Trafficking linked to the Ukraine exodus underscores the need to tackle this scourge—and for a unified EU response.
- [European solidarity: silver linings through dark clouds](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-solidarity-silver-linings-through-dark-clouds): Say it quietly but adversity is bringing Europe together.
- [The paradox of inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-paradox-of-inequality): Kate Pickett explains how to turn the vicious circle of inequality and social mistrust into a virtuous one.
- [WhatsApp Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whatsapp-europe): How official instant messaging can be made accessible is a big question. Whether it is compatible with democracy is a bigger one.
- [Reversing inequality: from capital to citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reversing-inequality-from-capital-to-citizens): Reviving the postwar spirit of egalitarianism is an economic and social imperative.
- [Does the future of Europe include disability?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-the-future-of-europe-include-disability): The Conference on the Future of Europe failed to address persons with disabilities.
- [Recovery and Resilience: stop-gap or sea-change?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/recovery-and-resilience-stop-gap-or-sea-change): The Recovery and Resilience Facility could remain a one-off crisis measure—or point to a permanent EU fiscal arrangement.
- [Polarisation and the threat to democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/polarisation-and-the-threat-to-democracy): In a polarised US, Sheri Berman writes, the tyranny of unrepresentative minorities represents the main threat to democracy.
- [Unhappy birthday, Andrei Sakharov](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unhappy-birthday-andrei-sakharov): The Kremlin’s negation of the Nobel laureate’s legacy represents another step backwards which could lead to nuclear war.
- [How the public loses out when politicians cash in](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-public-loses-out-when-politicians-cash-in): Gerhard Schröder has clearly breached the trust of the German people.
- [Ukraine and Europe’s defence spending](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-and-europes-defence-spending): Europe’s reaction to the Ukraine crisis will do much to define what kind of Europe it is to be.
- [A European constituency for a European public sphere](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-constituency-for-a-european-public-sphere): The European Parliament’s support for a pan-European constituency could transform the 2024 elections.
- [EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grab](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-hydrogen-import-targets-a-neo-colonial-resource-grab): The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies.
- [Control the vampire companies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/control-the-vampire-companies): Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.
- [Peace and trade—a new perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/peace-and-trade-a-new-perspective): The Ukraine crisis has shown not only that unlimited trade is impossible but also that it needs to be regulated by values.
- [COP15: negotiations must come out of the shadows](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cop15-negotiations-must-come-out-of-the-shadows): Biodiversity receives less attention than climate, although the collapse of the planet’s biomass is as worrying as climate change.
- [The uneven battlefield of reproductive rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-uneven-battlefield-of-reproductive-rights): Progressives have been too slow to appreciate the attack on reproductive rights in eastern Europe and the US.
- [Ukraine is no reason to invest in gas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-is-no-reason-to-invest-in-gas): The EIB must resist pressure to finance liquefied-natural-gas projects and champion zero-carbon public transport instead.
- [Sweden’s schools: Milton Friedman’s wet dream](https://www.socialeurope.eu/swedens-schools-milton-friedmans-wet-dream): Lisa Pelling explains how ‘freedom of choice’ has wrought a vicious circle of inequality and underperformance.
- [Access to justice in the ‘Fit for 55’ package](https://www.socialeurope.eu/access-to-justice-in-the-fit-for-55-package): Implementing the ‘Fit for 55’ package depends on citizens and NGOs being able to hold governments to account.
- [The new French left—the sociology of socialism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-french-left-the-sociology-of-socialism): The realignment on the French left highlights the basic requirement that the left unite the working and professional classes.
- [For a democratic, egalitarian and feminist constitution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-a-democratic-egalitarian-and-feminist-constitution): Chile’s constitutional convention is an example of how citizens’ representatives can refound a contemporary democracy.
- [The recovery will be green and feminist or it won’t be](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-recovery-will-be-green-and-feminist-or-it-wont-be): Chile’s new constitution could be the first to embody egalitarian and ecological principles.
- [Deinstitutionalisation, disability and delay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/disability-deinstitutionalisation-and-delay): After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.
- [Europe’s future hangs in the balance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-future-hangs-in-the-balance): Europe Day should be a day of celebration. Today it is an affirmation of resolve.
- [Return to positive interest rates requires a safety net](https://www.socialeurope.eu/return-to-positive-interest-rates-requires-a-safety-net): Peter Bofinger explains how inflation in the eurozone can be tempered without jeopardising recovery.
- [The long shadow of market fundamentalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-long-shadow-of-market-fundamentalism): In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
- [The coming world order](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-world-order): Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the world order—and with it the energy, production, distribution and finance systems.
- [No time for silos amid global heating](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-time-for-silos-amid-global-heating): Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.
- [Covid-19 and the ‘deserving’ vulnerable](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-and-the-deserving-vulnerable): In public vaccination programmes, all humans should be equal. But some have proved more equal than others.
- [Has the war in Ukraine made the EU a geopolitical actor?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/has-the-war-in-ukraine-made-the-eu-a-geopolitical-actor): Suddenly, Nicoletta Pirozzi writes, the EU’s ‘geopolitical’ claims have become essential, not aspirational.
- [‘South working’: the future of remote work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/south-working-the-future-of-remote-work): If remote working is no longer to be temporary, workers could revitalise previously ‘remote’ areas.
- [On May 1st, need for solidarity greater than ever](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-may-1st-need-for-solidarity-greater-than-ever): From Ukraine to the cost-of-living crisis to the pandemic, the social challenges of the moment demand a solidaristic response.
- [The origins of Putin’s totalitarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-origins-of-putins-totalitarianism): The siloviki who gained power during Putin’s early years have been replaced by faceless security technocrats—real heirs to the KGB.
- [Occupational safety and health—a fundamental right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/occupational-safety-and-health-a-fundamental-right): On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work, as every day, some 7,500 workers will die from its absence.
- [Covid-19 and safety at work—union dilemmas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-and-safety-at-work-union-dilemmas): Unions have struggled with health-and-safety responses to Covid-19.
- [A citizens’ Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-citizens-europe): The Conference on the Future of Europe could lead to a new European constitution.
- [The too-invisible hand of the EU emissions market](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-too-invisible-hand-of-the-eu-emissions-market): Europe has lost almost two precious decades to decarbonise industry due to one of the worst designed EU policy instruments.
- [Climate leadership needs more women](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-leadership-needs-more-women): Women face the greatest risks from environmental crises and have been shown to deliver better environmental policy results.
- [Seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/seizing-the-assets-of-russian-oligarchs): The episode has proved, Branko Milanovic writes, that Russia is not ruled by a few rich men but by a single autocrat.
- [Public pensions push profit over care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-pensions-push-profit-over-care): The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.
- [What we need for long-term peace and prosperity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-we-need-for-long-term-peace-and-prosperity): Recent crises have exposed the shortcomings of our international institutions and growth-obsessed economic models.
- [AI threatens to increase inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-threatens-to-increase-inequality): The debate on AI has focused mainly on its potential effect on employment. The impact on equality should not however be missed.
- [A single market for the future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-single-market-for-the-future): War in Ukraine, the climate challenge and the concept of strategic autonomy are paving the way for a new type of single market.
- [A new era of containment?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-era-of-containment): The security architecture of the past 50 years is in ruins. Robert Misik maps a policy for the new cold war.
- [Ukrainian refugees and vaccination challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukrainian-refugees-and-vaccination-challenges): We are facing two huge crises: Ukraine and the pandemic. But no one is putting them together.
- [A new age of party democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-age-of-party-democracy): Critical to the rebuilding of crumbled political pillars such as the Parti Socialiste in France is the installation of party democracy.
- [Artificial intelligence: filling the gaps](https://www.socialeurope.eu/artificial-intelligence-filling-the-gaps): Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers.
- [Why Europe can’t break free from the gas lobby](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-europe-cant-break-free-from-the-gas-lobby): Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.
- [What to do with Russian oil and gas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-to-do-with-russian-oil-and-gas): The European Union should apply import tariffs, instead of imposing an embargo.
- [The never-ending pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-never-ending-pandemic): Wishful thinking has left many in Europe unaware that we are now stuck on a low road of significant, burdensome infection.
- [The French unwilling willingness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-french-unwilling-willingness): The renewed polarisation between Macron and Le Pen in the presidential election conceals a pas de deux.
- [Ukraine, NATO and a Zeitenwende](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-nato-and-a-zeitenwende): Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one.
- [Co-determination at issue in Europe’s top court](https://www.socialeurope.eu/co-determination-at-issue-in-europes-top-court): Can companies dilute national worker-involvement rights by becoming European?
- [Fidesz and Orbán triumph in Hungary’s skewed elections](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fidesz-and-orban-triumph-in-hungarys-skewed-elections): Orbán’s return to power was eased by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but the playing-field was already far from level.
- [Transnational labour and social rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/transnational-labour-and-social-rights): A European layer of social insurance is increasingly necessary.
- [Equality favours democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/equality-favours-democracy): Ukraine has been invaded by one of Europe’s most unequal countries. But then equality is one of democracy’s strongest buttresses.
- [How the radical right uses emotions for political gain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-radical-right-uses-emotions-for-political-gain): Individuals prone to shame and resentment may be drawn to radical-right rhetoric.
- [Sanctions on Russia: the next phase](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sanctions-on-russia-the-next-phase): Sanctions have so far been economic and short-term. The long-term goal of political freedom in Russia must be kept in mind.
- [The ECB should not hike interest rates](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecb-should-not-hike-interest-rates): Europe’s central bank is under pressure to raise interest rates to counter rising inflation. It should resist it.
- [Class in the classroom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/class-in-the-classroom): Nominally egalitarian education systems, Kate Pickett writes, can in reality reproduce deep social inequalities.
- [Putin’s war will destroy Russia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/putins-war-will-destroy-russia): By attacking another European country, Putin crossed a line drawn after World War II. But he also changed Russia.
- [‘Post-work’ visions for 2030](https://www.socialeurope.eu/post-work-visions-for-2030): The future could realise the dream of Marx and Keynes for a society beyond work—or a populist nightmare of worklessness.
- [The home as office—what’s gender got to do with it?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-home-as-office-whats-gender-got-to-do-with-it): Rise of telework should dispel the notion that only work in the public sphere is, really, ‘work’.
- [What’s at stake in Slovenia’s election?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whats-at-stake-in-slovenias-election): Slovenia rarely makes headlines in Europe—but its election will say a lot about the future of the EU.
- [Orbán, Putin and prospects for democracy in Hungary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/orban-putin-and-the-prospects-for-democracy-in-hungary): The popularity of Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister had been waning. The invasion of Ukraine may offer an electoral lifeline.
- [Hungarian businesses as EU rentiers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarian-businesses-as-eu-rentiers): Amid the impasse over its national recovery plan, a study has shown the very low effectiveness of EU funding in Hungary.
- [Time to decamp from cold-war ideas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-decamp-from-cold-war-ideas): Sections of the left which still think of the world in blocs, Sheri Berman writes, are guilty of blocked thinking.
- [Climate justice requires women’s leadership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-justice-requires-womens-leadership): Without active participation of women, a carbon-neutral future will remain out of reach.
- [A European basic income?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-a-progressive-european-basic-income): An EU-wide scheme could address progressives’ concerns.
- [A European solidarity pact](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-solidarity-pact): Europe’s political leaders must rise to today’s challenges.
- [To quit Russian gas and oil, a green-transition jubilee](https://www.socialeurope.eu/to-quit-russian-gas-and-oil-a-green-transition-jubilee): Europe must exit from its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by designating the next year as one of state-financed domestic conversions.
- [Europe’s solution to its energy dependence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-solution-to-its-energy-dependence): Europe could simply buy fewer fossil fuels from Russia, maybe more from elsewhere—but there is a more fundamental answer.
- [Enhancing Europe’s equality framework](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enhancing-europes-equality-framework): Minimum standards for national equality bodies are needed to ensure equal treatment applies equally across the EU.
- [Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-should-be-responsible-for-emissions-reductions): The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.
- [Good food—a public good](https://www.socialeurope.eu/good-food-a-public-good): Amid growing food insecurity and climate breakdown, the EU must ensure healthy and sustainable food is accessible and affordable for all.
- [Civil society’s shrinking space](https://www.socialeurope.eu/civil-societys-shrinking-space): Amid the argument over the rule of law in some member states, civil society needs strengthening, embodying European values.
- [Ukraine underlines urgency of EU green food goals](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-underlines-urgency-of-eu-green-food-goals): Powerful industrial-agriculture lobbies are seeking to take advantage of the crisis to undermine EU commitments.
- [Fair pay for truck drivers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fair-pay-for-truck-drivers): The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to hold out a prospect of a single market that works for its mobile workers.
- [The obsession to ‘complete the single market’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/completing-the-single-market-a-dangerous-obsession): Multinationals are pushing to open new frontiers in the single market with a deregulatory agenda.
- [How to welcome Ukrainian refugees](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-welcome-ukrainian-refugees): Lisa Pelling begins a new Social Europe column with lessons for integration—especially from Sweden.
- [Europe needs drastic pesticide reduction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-drastic-pesticide-reduction): A leaked proposal from the European Commission would favour the agrochemical industry, not the citizenry.
- [How Europe can include Ukrainian refugees in society](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-europe-can-include-ukrainian-refugees-in-society): European countries should start preparing to integrate the new arrivals for the long term.
- [Europe’s agriculture and care—mistreated migrants](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-agriculture-and-care-mistreated-migrants): Informal migrant workers are denied basic social protection and the chance to integrate.
- [Rebutting the assaults on gender equality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rebutting-the-assaults-on-gender-equality): Tackling gender-based violence, on which an EU directive proposal is expected today, is key to restoring momentum to the feminist cause.
- [Covid-19 didn’t cause the care crisis—privatisation did](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-didnt-cause-the-care-crisis-privatisation-did): The scandal of Europe’s biggest eldercare operator highlights how a public good has been turned into a private asset class.
- [The global struggle for democracy is in Ukraine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-global-struggle-for-democracy-is-in-ukraine): Russia’s military assault on Ukraine caps a period of political attacks on democracy around the world.
- [Reclaim your space—a feminist outcry for equality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reclaim-your-space-a-feminist-outcry-for-equality): There is so much to do to bring about gender equality in Europe. Much too much for only one day of the year.
- [Taking the heat out of energy prices](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taking-the-heat-out-of-energy-prices): Instead of higher interest rates, Peter Bofinger urges lower VAT on energy and temporary suspension of the CO2 trading system.
- [Ukraine’s EU membership: still some way off](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraines-eu-membership-still-some-way-off): There has been a positive response to the appeal by the Ukrainian president for EU membership. But it won’t come soon.
- [Services, value chains and the global south](https://www.socialeurope.eu/services-value-chains-and-the-global-south): Insertion into global value chains in services is no hand-up panacea for the least-developed countries.
- [From shock therapy to Putin’s war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-shock-therapy-to-putins-war): Putin is alone responsible for the war in Ukraine but prominent westerners played a key role in Russia’s post-Soviet trajectory.
- [Labour’s opportunity: a multi-party government](https://www.socialeurope.eu/labours-opportunity-a-multi-party-government): If the Conservatives are to be defeated at the next Westminster election, Labour must back a coalition alternative.
- [Democracy and security in the EU’s neighbourhood](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-and-security-in-the-eus-neighbourhood): Nicoletta Pirozzi opens a Social Europe column by sketching the political vision the EU must hold out to its neighbours such as Ukraine.
- [Ukraine’s refugees: hospitality required](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraines-refugees-hospitality-required): It’s time for the rest of Europe to show solidarity with Ukrainians through temporary protection of refugees.
- [Solidarity in time of war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/solidarity-in-time-of-war): The Russian invasion of Ukraine demands a multi-pronged, enduring European response sending a very clear signal to the Kremlin.
- [Ordinary Russians don’t want this war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ordinary-russians-dont-want-this-war): The Russian president has launched his invasion of Ukraine but the attack could severely destabilise his regime.
- [Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/performance-related-pay-and-the-gender-pay-gap): Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.
- [Transitions through workplace innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/successful-transitions-through-workplace-innovation): Investing in good jobs and employees is crucial to negotiating the green and digital transitions.
- [Will Europe deliver on corporate responsibility?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-more-delays-on-eu-corporate-responsibility): The EU must enforce mandatory due diligence on corporations and their supply chains and involve workers in its strategy.
- [Why we need a European supply-chain act](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-we-need-a-european-supply-chain-act): Human-rights due diligence must be taken seriously—as the Brumadinho case showed.
- [The beginning of a new globalisation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-beginning-of-a-new-globalisation): This time, Branko Milanovic writes, it is labour—not capital—which will be globalised.
- [Apprehend, detain, deport—towards a securitised EU?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/apprehend-detain-deport-towards-a-securitised-eu): Pushbacks at Europe’s borders have not been compliant with the Refugee Convention. Nor would internal ones.
- [Boris Johnson’s last affair?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/boris-johnsons-last-affair): His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.
- [Doors closed, living on air](https://www.socialeurope.eu/doors-closed-living-on-air): As Greece shows in extremis, the cultural sector is crying out for appropriate social policies.
- [Climate accountability now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-accountability-now): Major emitters must deliver on critical ‘climate justice’ issues, such as financing for vulnerable countries.
- [Building social Europe, winning public confidence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-social-europe-winning-public-confidence): Trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining.
- [Beyond dystopia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-dystopia): To change the pessimistic Zeitgeist, left-wing politics and radical art must renew their alliance, Robert Misik writes.
- [Let them eat respect?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/let-them-eat-respect): The idea that social-democratic parties should accommodate anti-immigrant sentiment is not only misguided but empirically wrong.
- [Europe and the future of US democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-and-the-future-of-us-democracy): Europe needs to address the risk come 2024 of facing not only a non-democratic superpower to its east—but to its west too.
- [Europe’s utilities: net zero or not zero?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-utilities-net-zero-or-not-zero): Europe’s largest energy companies are failing on their net-zero pledges.
- [A mental-health strategy for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-mental-health-strategy-for-europe): The broad social determinants of poor mental health demand a holistic approach.
- [Corporate due diligence—it’s in short supply](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-due-diligence-its-in-short-supply): The EU must enforce robust human-rights due diligence in company supply chains.
- [Germany on the way to adequate minimum wages](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-on-the-way-to-adequate-minimum-wages): The hike to €12 is also a strong signal on the planned European minimum-wages directive.
- [Boris Johnson: a political career in freefall](https://www.socialeurope.eu/boris-johnson-a-political-career-in-freefall): The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power, Paul Mason writes. It’s lost that muscle memory.
- [‘They’re taking our jobs’—really?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/theyre-taking-our-jobs-really): It is widely believed that migrants have displaced indigenous workers—but it’s false.
- [Capital flight—stopping the looting of Africa](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capital-flight-stopping-the-looting-of-africa): As with the coronavirus, the global north needs to recognise its interdependence with Africa when it comes to financial flows.
- [Freedom—we won’t let you down](https://www.socialeurope.eu/freedom-we-wont-let-you-down): Pandemic protests have mobilised the language of ‘freedom’. Progressives need to redefine that as emancipation.
- [The Metaverse is a labour issue](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-metaverse-is-a-labour-issue): The Metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies.
- [Portugal: socialist victory and the morning after](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portugal-socialist-victory-and-the-morning-after): Why did the socialists win so big in Portugal? Maybe because they weren’t expected to.
- [Ukraine and the future of Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ukraine-and-the-future-of-europe): Vladimir Putin’s indulgence of his imperial impulses has far-reaching implications for Europe’s place in the world.
- [The story versus the statistic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-story-versus-the-statistic): Kate Pickett ponders how social scientists can bring structural inequalities to light when media focus on individual lives.
- [Portuguese elections too close to call](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portuguese-elections-too-close-to-call): Disharmony on the left could pave the way for a right-wing coalition government.
- [The future of Europe: who holds the baton?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-europe-who-holds-the-baton): Political leaders must not turn the Conference on the Future of Europe into another EU black box.
- [Inflation: raising rates is not the answer](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inflation-raising-rates-is-not-the-answer): As inflation has re-emerged, so have calls for general monetary tightening.
- [Cutting workplace accidents and diseases to zero](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cutting-workplace-accidents-and-diseases-to-zero): The pandemic has focused attention on health and safety. But workers were already dying just trying to make a living.
- [Green taxonomy: traffic-light coalition flashes amber](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-taxonomy-traffic-light-coalition-flashes-amber): The EU’s controversial proposal to label nuclear energy ‘green’ could jeopardise the future of the German coalition.
- [Building back greener?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-back-greener): The Recovery and Resilience Facility is important but will not mobilise sufficient green investment by itself.
- [EU cash floodgates open for nuclear and gas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-cash-floodgates-open-for-nuclear-and-gas): There is no environmental, climate or economic reason to include nuclear and fossil gas in the EU investment taxonomy.
- [The biggest killer of pandemic times: inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-biggest-killer-of-pandemic-times-inequality): ‘Inequality’ is never the official cause of a death. But, writes Jayati Ghosh, that doesn’t mean it’s not.
- [The drama of the French presidential election](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-drama-of-the-french-presidential-election): Social democracy is flatlining in a France which otherwise betrays common European features.
- [Framing the future of the internet](https://www.socialeurope.eu/framing-the-future-of-the-internet): The European Parliament has just voted on the Digital Services Act, crucial for internet regulation.
- [Macron wants EU ‘sovereignty’—but for whom?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/macron-wants-eu-sovereignty-but-for-whom): The French president has made ‘sovereignty’ a buzzword. Yet corporations seem to enjoy more than citizens.
- [A green developmentalism for Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-green-developmentalism-for-europe-2): The French EU presidency provides an opportunity to advance a ‘developmentalist’ strategy for the green transition.
- [Europe must reimagine its cultural policies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-reimagine-its-cultural-policies): The EU has often been thought of as primarily a market-making mechanism. Yet it is above all a cultural project.
- [The price increases that matter for the poor](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-price-increases-that-matter-for-the-poor): Rich-country governments are not adequately addressing the causes of food-price inflation—the world’s poor continue to suffer as a result.
- [Amazon and the power of big digital platforms](https://www.socialeurope.eu/amazon-and-the-power-of-big-digital-platforms): Platform power is often traced to markets, implying anti-trust action. The source, and the solution, lie elsewhere.
- [Social-ecological policy options: free green services](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-ecological-policy-options-free-green-services): How to avoid ecological policies having adverse social effects? Make the associated services (partly) free.
- [‘Leaving no one behind’: putting words into actions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/leaving-no-one-behind-putting-words-into-actions): The climate transition and its social dimension demand more powerful instruments than the European Commission proposes.
- [First collective agreement for platform workers in Spain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/first-agreement-for-platform-workers-in-spain): The agreement follows a critical Supreme Court judgment and the ‘riders’ law’ deriving from social dialogue.
- [While social apartheid endures, so will the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/while-social-apartheid-endures-so-will-the-pandemic): Denying vaccination to Africa was always bound to rebound on the global north.
- [Not only a vaccine waiver: WTO reform is urgent](https://www.socialeurope.eu/not-only-a-vaccine-waiver-wto-reform-is-urgent): ‘Intellectual property rights’ as the foundation of ‘free’ markets is a notion difficult, intellectually, to sustain.
- [Unnecessary tradeoffs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unnecessary-tradeoffs): Progressive ideas can prevail in a democracy, Sheri Berman writes—but only if they are pitched in universal terms.
- [Learning accounts—filling the training gaps](https://www.socialeurope.eu/learning-accounts-filling-the-training-gaps): Individual learning accounts can make the right to training tangible for all but EU member states will need to raise their commitment.
- [Russia: it’s raining men without umbrellas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russia-its-raining-men-without-umbrellas): What is Russia up to, at the Ukraine border and beyond? It takes a gender lens to see.
- [Spain’s labour reform: less transience, more balance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spains-labour-reform-less-temporary-work-more-balance): While still subject to political negotiations, the labour-market reform agreed by Spain’s social partners should bring more security.
- [Germany’s reliance on its healthcare ‘brown angels’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-reliance-on-its-healthcare-brown-angels): The recruitment of nurses to meet shortages in the global north has side-effects—not all good—on their countries of origin.
- [Online surveillance thrives when fear takes over](https://www.socialeurope.eu/online-surveillance-thrives-when-fear-takes-over): European law-enforcement agencies have been pushing to end encryption and survey everyone’s online communications.
- [Higher public debt = lower growth?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/higher-public-debt-lower-growth): The pandemic-induced crisis has seen fiscal policy relaxed. Ill-evidenced orthodoxy must not be allowed to reinstate austerity.
- [European Green Deal: can it tackle the climate crisis?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-green-deal-can-it-tackle-the-climate-crisis): Public-private partnerships must be replaced by public-community collaborations for wellbeing and the climate.
- [Digitalisation and telework—the ‘new normal’?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/digitalisation-and-telework-the-new-normal): New working arrangements could hold out more self-determination for workers. Too often they have meant more stress.
- [High-speed rail along a ‘European silk road’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/high-speed-rail-along-a-european-silk-road): The Recovery and Resilience Facility aims to finance national projects. Yet a pan-European rail network could yield big emissions cuts.
- [Regulate, but build too: for a European digital sphere](https://www.socialeurope.eu/regulate-but-build-too-for-a-european-digital-sphere): The EU should not just clip the wings of the Californian corporations but help construct a European digital public sphere.
- [Value-based engineering vs the Silicon Valley Zeitgeist](https://www.socialeurope.eu/value-based-engineering-v-the-silicon-valley-zeitgeist): A European digital public sphere has to be engineered—but that doesn’t mean pursuing an AI dystopia or creating a European Facebook.
- [The virus antidote: political leadership, progressive government, public services](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-virus-antidote-political-leadership-progressive-government-public-services): With still fewer than 50 fatalities, there is much to learn from how New Zealand’s Labour government has handled the pandemic.
- [A tale of loss and hope: what can we learn from Poland?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-tale-of-loss-and-hope-what-can-we-learn-from-poland): Poland’s ruling nationalists aren’t having it all their own way. The opposition needs more external recognition.
- [Towards transparency by design in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-transparency-by-design-in-the-eu): Citizens must have access to information to engage with the democratic life of the union, the European ombudsman argues.
- [The ECB needs a better narrative](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecb-needs-a-better-narrative): Giving the public impression that inflation is ‘too low’, Peter Bofinger writes, is not a good look for the bank.
- [The dark side of the logistics boom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-dark-site-of-the-logistics-boom): Online shopping is simple and convenient for customers. But the logistics workforce may pay the price.
- [EU strategic autonomy must mean fairer trade](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-strategic-autonomy-must-mean-fairer-trade): If ‘strategic autonomy’ is to define the EU’s relation to the world, linked trade deals must not mean dependence for workers.
- [Buildings key to achieving Europe’s climate goals](https://www.socialeurope.eu/buildings-key-to-achieving-europes-climate-goals): There are fears the revised directive on energy performance due from the European Commission will not be adequate to the task.
- [Burying the problem: carbon markets and sustainable agriculture](https://www.socialeurope.eu/burying-the-problem-carbon-markets-and-sustainable-agriculture): The European Commission initiative on ‘carbon farming’ due today is expected to rely on a market in sequestration.
- [A better deal for the world’s workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-better-deal-for-the-worlds-workers): Boosting earnings and the dignity of work requires strengthening bargaining power and supplying good jobs to those who most need them.
- [Will European recovery ever be co-determined by social actors?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-european-recovery-ever-be-co-determined-by-social-actors): The EU’s plan for recovery offered an opportunity for meaningful involvement of social actors. The outcome? Patchy.
- [Transforming German society](https://www.socialeurope.eu/transforming-german-society): More than profound changes to German citizenship laws will be needed to render a diverse society harmonious.
- [The Summit for Democracy—a wrong idea (for the world)](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-summit-for-democracy-a-wrong-idea-for-the-world): Branko Milanovic contends that last week’s US-convened Summit for Democracy could only exacerbate geopolitical divides.
- [Germany’s new coalition: changing gear on climate](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-new-coalition-changing-gear-on-climate): Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition is sending strong green signals. But political roadblocks lie ahead.
- [Tax justice—a crucial tool to advance human rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tax-justice-a-crucial-tool-to-advance-human-rights): On Human Rights Day, the world looks a lot different through a lens of social and economic rights.
- [European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-commission-takes-the-lead-in-regulating-platform-work): The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front of the platform companies.
- [EU borrowing—time to think of the generation after next](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-borrowing-time-to-think-of-the-generation-after-next): Financing post-pandemic recovery via EU borrowing has proved remarkably straightforward. So why keep it temporary?
- [Regulating digital work: from laisser-faire to fairness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/regulating-digital-work-from-laisser-faire-to-fairness): The proposal for an EU directive on platform work about to emerge is welcome, yet insufficient—and no substitute for national action.
- [The ‘freedom’ to work for nothing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-freedom-to-work-for-nothing): Irregular pay is one of the criticisms levelled at platform companies. But some of the time there is no pay at all.
- [Monitoring of workers’ personal data via entrance control systems](https://www.socialeurope.eu/monitoring-of-workers-personal-data-via-entrance-control-systems): Preventing 1984-style monitoring of workers requires a rebalancing of workplace power, based on legal regulation and human dignity.
- [Regularising migrants: Portugal’s missed chance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/regularising-migrants-portugals-missed-chance): The pandemic has encouraged a re-evaluation of key migrant workers. A botched reform in Portugal has however revealed the pitfalls.
- [The revolt against reason](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-revolt-against-reason): Many have lost all trust in politics, Robert Misik writes. The protests against vaccination and anti-virus rules however turn this into madness.
- [Getting to zero—what’s the beef?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/getting-to-zero-whats-the-beef): Most livestock land will have to be repurposed as carbon sinks to remove the huge global emissions related to food production.
- [Structural solutions for structural inequalities—a trade union perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/structural-solutions-for-structural-inequalities-a-european-trade-union-perspective): Responses to the pandemic have upended the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to macroeconomic policies engendering widening inequality.
- [Reimagining care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reimagining-care): Many regard caring for the Earth and others as a means to an end. Everything changes if we view care as an essential set of relationships.
- [Andersson’s agenda](https://www.socialeurope.eu/anderssons-agenda): Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
- [Raising the resources to open the European sluice-gates](https://www.socialeurope.eu/raising-the-resources-to-open-the-european-sluice-gates): The growing challenges facing Europe, beyond recovery from the pandemic, require a budget to match.
- [Reversing the procurement race to the bottom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reversing-the-procurement-race-to-the-bottom): Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.
- [Towards gender-parity democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-gender-parity-democracy): It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
- [Putin, pugilism and pusillanimity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/putin-pugilism-and-pusillanimity): Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.
- [More ambitious European minimum-wages directive demanded](https://www.socialeurope.eu/more-ambitious-european-minimum-wages-directive-demanded): The European Parliament has upped the ante, beyond a European Commission proposal, on a minimum-wages directive.
- [Women in union leadership—not seeing the wood for the trees?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/women-in-union-leadership-not-seeing-the-wood-for-the-trees): The feminisation of trade unions is percolating to the upper echelons. But organisational cultures still work against women taking leading roles.
- [Matteo Salvini’s League and the price of unbridled populism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/matteo-salvinis-league-and-the-price-of-unbridled-populism): The strength of populism is its simple message that ‘the people’ are traduced by an ‘elite’ linked to ‘foreign’ interlopers. That’s also its weakness.
- [The twin original sins of fiscal Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-twin-original-sins-of-fiscal-europe): With the post-Maastricht fiscal rules in abeyance due to the pandemic, it’s time to address their fundamental flaws.
- [How it feels to be a rank outsider](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-it-feels-to-be-a-rank-outsider): Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
- [The right institutions for the climate transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-right-institutions-for-the-climate-transition): Global climate commitments will not amount to much without the institutional foundation the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
- [Globalisation, telemigrants and working conditions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/globalisation-telemigrants-and-working-conditions): The globalisation of service work may not bring the major job losses feared—but it could weaken workers’ power significantly.
- [The lure of progressive authoritarianism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-lure-of-progressive-authoritarianism): The left needs to rediscover the virtue of liberty.
- [Fixing climate finance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fixing-climate-finance): Finance was at the heart of the COP26 rupture between developed and developing countries—it’s time for a new approach.
- [How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-the-climate-crisis-is-changing-europes-economic-landscape): After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.
- [Tax abuse—it’s costing the earth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tax-abuse-its-costing-the-earth): The world’s health workforce could be vaccinated in 36 hours if the pandemic of tax abuse were ended.
- [On the way to a European digital public sphere](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-the-way-to-a-european-digital-public-sphere): A European digital public sphere need not be constructed de novo. Many elements already exist to be cohered.
- [The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-feminist-building-blocks-of-a-just-sustainable-economy): Jayati Ghosh finds in a UN Women report a blueprint for an economy which serves the public—rather than the other way around.
- [Can the crisis of social reproduction bring the demise of central-European illiberals?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-the-crisis-of-social-reproduction-bring-the-demise-of-central-european-illiberals): Weronika Grzebalska argues that illiberal policy innovations in central Europe are fuelling the crisis of social reproduction they promised to tackle.
- [A European digital public sphere—legal and policy implications](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-digital-public-sphere-legal-and-policy-implications): The EU has hitherto applied conventional market-regulating tools to the online arena. It’s time to adopt a human-centred approach.
- [Why do we need a European digital public sphere?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-do-we-need-a-european-digital-public-sphere): Introducing a new series on a European digital public sphere, some contributors sketch what it is—and explain why we need it.
- [Aiming for a revolution in world trade](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-revolution-in-world-trade): In the neoliberal era, global trade deals have come at the expense of workers. That can and must be reversed.
- [Against ‘weaponised migration’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/against-weaponised-migration): Using stigmatising language to describe the crisis at the Poland-Belarus border is wrong and plays into Lukashenka’s hands.
- [Jobs and a just transition can deliver climate ambition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/jobs-and-a-just-transition-can-deliver-climate-ambition): As COP26 continues, global social ambition will have to match that for the climate to secure a liveable world for all.
- [Time for a proactive domestic and European industrial policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-for-a-proactive-domestic-and-european-industrial-policy): There is growing recognition in Europe of the need to steer an ecological industrial transition—just not enough.
- [Artificial intelligence and workers’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/artificial-intelligence-and-workers-rights): A draft EU regulation on artificial intelligence risks exclusion of the social partners and lack of compliance with data-protection requirements.
- [Facebook Files and ePrivacy lobbying expose the power of Big Tech](https://www.socialeurope.eu/facebook-files-and-eprivacy-lobbying-expose-the-power-of-big-tech): As MEPs host the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen this afternoon, they need to step up their challenge to the surveillance capitalists.
- [The gamble for the planet: young climate activists could tilt the scales](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-gamble-for-the-planet-young-climate-activists-could-tilt-the-scales): Government leaders in Glasgow are still behind the climate curve but young activists might just drag the world ahead of it.
- [If young people ‘are the future’, that needs to start now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/if-young-people-are-the-future-that-needs-to-start-now): Next year has been designated ‘European Year of Youth’. The Conference on the Future of Europe must hold out a real prospect for young people.
- [Climate conference: fix article 6](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-conference-fix-article-6): Alongside ambitious emissions-reductions targets, well-functioning carbon markets are key to success at COP26 and on today’s agenda.
- [Growing old—and what it means for the future of Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/growing-old-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-europe): Ageing can and should be a positive process, which the Conference on the Future of Europe should embrace.
- [A ray of hope for arts and cultural workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-ray-of-hope-for-arts-and-cultural-workers): A European Parliament report offers hope to arts and cultural workers struggling amid the pandemic. The European Commission must not disappoint them.
- [An unorthodox solution for Europe’s electricity crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-unorthodox-solution-for-europes-electricity-crisis): National schemes sparing consumers the worst impact of soaring prices are no substitute for the EU redefining electricity as a public good.
- [Deforestation an attack on the human rights of forest peoples](https://www.socialeurope.eu/deforestation-an-attack-on-the-human-rights-of-forest-peoples): The European Commission must recognise deforestation is not only about the environment but human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
- [Stopping democratic backsliding](https://www.socialeurope.eu/stopping-democratic-backsliding): Sheri Berman argues that democracy today faces a more insidious threat than coups d’état—slow strangulation by elected autocrats.
- [The G20, the private sector and the vaccine, debt and climate crises](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-g20-the-private-sector-and-the-vaccine-debt-and-climate-crises): G20 leaders meeting in Rome must recognise that only public purpose, not private profit, can tackle interconnected global crises.
- [Gender equality in Europe—everywhere relevant, everyone implicated](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gender-equality-in-europe-everywhere-relevant-everyone-implicated): Gender Equality Week saw European Parliament committees host many events, highlighting real threats but also strong commitments.
- [Care workers are key to quality care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/care-workers-are-key-to-quality-care): On the Global Day of Action for Care Workers, unions mobilise for investment and decent work.
- [Is Hungary returning to Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-hungary-returning-to-europe): The Hungarian opposition have united behind a conservative opponent of Viktor Orbán, ahead of parliamentary elections in the spring.
- [Minimum wage—yet another gender divide?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wage-yet-another-gender-divide): The number of minimum-wage earners has increased across Europe over the last decade—and they are more likely to be women.
- [Is remote work an ecological alternative?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-remote-work-an-ecological-alternative): Can the trend to remote work spurred by the pandemic be associated with lower greenhouse-gas emissions? It depends.
- [Digitalisation and recovery—it’s not just about the technology](https://www.socialeurope.eu/digitalisation-and-recovery-its-not-just-about-the-technology): Digitalisation must be matched by social innovation if the national recovery and resilience plans are to be effective.
- [Germany’s traffic-light coalition: green light or stuck on amber?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-traffic-light-coalition-green-light-or-stuck-on-amber): Peter Bofinger recognises the compromises necessary for a three-party government but regrets the lack of vision to face a decade of huge challenges.
- [European social dialogue—can it be revived?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-dialogue-can-it-be-revived): The European Court of Justice has affirmed that agreements arising from European social dialogue need not be implemented by the EU institutions.
- [Who will be covered by an EU instrument on platform work?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/who-will-be-covered-by-an-eu-instrument-on-platform-work): A broad definition of the ‘worker’ will be essential to avoid platform companies sustaining false self-employment claims.
- [Refugees fleeing Lebanon look to Europe—but Europe looks away](https://www.socialeurope.eu/refugees-fleeing-lebanon-look-to-europe-but-europe-looks-away): In a case study of human desperation, state failure drives refugees to Cyprus, only to meet pushbacks and a numbed European conscience.
- [The EU must step up in Glasgow](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-must-step-up-in-glasgow): The EU was critical in the Paris climate agreement of 2015 and success in Glasgow may again depend on its leadership.
- [To end poverty, invest in children](https://www.socialeurope.eu/to-end-poverty-invest-in-children): The author presents a report today to the UN General Assembly on the persistence of poverty, following dialogues with people in poverty around the world.
- [‘Social media’, market power and the health of democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-media-market-power-and-the-health-of-democracy): With the whistle blown on Facebook, Congress must allocate ownership of personal data to the person—not the platform—to allow competitive providers to emerge.
- [Biden’s trap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bidens-trap): Joe Biden’s administration must deliver on sweeping new federal programmes while placating moderates who oppose radical policy measures.
- [Can Xi Jinping defeat three stubborn modern inequalities?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-xi-jinping-defeat-three-stubborn-modern-inequalities): Branko Milanovic argues that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ is replicating United States inequalities.
- [A new global economic consensus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-global-economic-consensus): The pandemic has highlighted the deficiencies of economic deregulation and market liberalisation and a new policy-making paradigm is emerging.
- [Making lifelong learning a reality in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-lifelong-learning-a-reality-in-the-eu): There was a time when education and training were for life. But amid today’s social transformations only lifelong learning will do.
- [Brexit: why does Northern Ireland matter so much?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brexit-why-does-northern-ireland-matter-so-much): So little appears at stake in the Northern Ireland protocol yet it’s at the heart of the Brexit deadlock. But then it’s a proxy for something else.
- [The Pandora Papers and the threat to democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-pandora-papers-and-the-threat-to-democracy): In demonstrating how some of the world’s most powerful people hide their wealth, the Pandora Papers have exposed the details of a global system.
- [Why a new University of Labour?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-a-new-university-of-labour): As workers’ representatives face the challenges of digitalised work and fragmented workforces, a ‘University of Labour’ in Germany offers support.
- [The improbable victory: lessons of the SPD’s election win](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-improbable-victory-lessons-of-the-spds-election-win): In his first Social Europe column, Robert Misik explains how the SPD prevailed in the Bundestag elections—and what follows.
- [Trade unions take on platform companies in the struggle for decent work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-take-on-platform-companies-in-the-struggle-for-decent-work): On World Day of Decent Work, the European Trade Union Confederation puts the spotlight on justice for platform workers.
- [The new way of doing politics in times of elections](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-way-of-doing-politics-in-times-of-elections): As Czechs go to the polls, a new politics is emerging across Europe, variously populist and technocratic.
- [Hungary’s path puts everyone’s rights in danger](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarys-path-puts-everyones-rights-in-danger): The ostensible assault on LGBT+ rights in Hungary, Poland and Russia has a very big target—anyone who signs up to universal norms.
- [Intellectual monopoly capitalism—challenge of our times](https://www.socialeurope.eu/intellectual-monopoly-capitalism-challenge-of-our-times): Unregulated capitalism has always tended to monopoly. But Big Tech represents a challenge antitrust tools can’t tame.
- [‘Recovery and resilience’—how that looks from the east](https://www.socialeurope.eu/recovery-and-resilience-how-that-looks-from-the-east): EU funding of bricks-and-mortar projects in central and eastern Europe hasn’t addressed its human-resources crisis. Could the Recovery and Resilience Facility be a turning point?
- [Britain heads further down the Brexit rabbit-hole](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britain-heads-further-down-the-brexit-rabbit-hole): Despite petrol shortages and empty shelves, Labour is adrift—and Johnson may press the Northern Ireland protocol nuclear button.
- [How Olaf Scholz won Germany](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-olaf-scholz-won-germany): In a few months, Scholz reversed the social democrats’ decade-long decline, running on a message of dignity and respect for all workers.
- [After the Bundestag elections—a change of climate?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-bundestag-elections-a-change-of-climate): Angela Merkel was labelled the ‘climate chancellor’. But powerful coal and car industries limited her achievements. Will her successor break free?
- [The myth of green capitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-myth-of-green-capitalism): Rallying behind market-based measures to address climate change allows the owners of capital yet another way to avoid a reckoning.
- [Coming second in the game of life](https://www.socialeurope.eu/coming-second-in-the-game-of-life): ‘We don’t want to decapitate the tall poppies,’ said Boris Johnson in July. Yet for Kate Pickett his ‘levelling up’ ambitions will necessitate flattening the whole social gradient.
- [Ecosocialism: more than another Third Way](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ecosocialism-more-than-another-third-way): The old left was too slow to see beyond materialist consumption. But an ecosocialism can underpin coalitions with the green parties which filled the gap.
- [Gender, ministers and political appointments](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gender-ministers-and-political-appointments): Women fronting governments sends an important signal. Having them in the backrooms of power is however also crucial.
- [It’s about the sausage](https://www.socialeurope.eu/its-about-the-sausage): Ahead of the Bundestag elections on Sunday, just how did Olaf Scholz become the top candidate to be chancellor?
- [To stop global heating, tax multinationals better](https://www.socialeurope.eu/to-stop-global-heating-tax-multinationals-better): The rapid, radical decarbonisation needed to save the planet will cost a lot. Taxing multinationals and the wealthy properly can help pay for it.
- [Another win for workers: Uber drivers are employees](https://www.socialeurope.eu/another-win-for-workers-uber-drivers-are-employees): As the platforms lose case after case over the designation of ‘contractors’ as workers, they are lobbying at European level to win back control.
- [Global inequality and the pandemic: exaggerated hopes and fears?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/global-inequality-and-the-pandemic-exaggerated-hopes-and-fears): The pandemic has barely increased global income inequality—but it has made other inequalities worse.
- [Time is running out for a new agricultural model for the global south](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-is-running-out-for-a-new-agricultural-model-for-the-global-south): Jayati Ghosh is baffled that at a coming food summit the UN should partner with the World Economic Forum, not its own specialist agencies.
- [Finding solid ground: gateways to municipal socialism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/finding-solid-ground-gateways-to-municipal-socialism): From interwar Vienna through 1980s London and beyond, municipalities are the crucible of compelling socialist initiatives.
- [Catalonia: a fraught dialogue begins](https://www.socialeurope.eu/catalonia-a-fraught-dialogue-begins): The leaders of the Spanish government and that in Catalonia have met across the table—but the gap between them remains large.
- [How democracy can win again](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-democracy-can-win-again): Democratic erosion in Hungary is symptomatic of structural problems afflicting most democracies, even threatening the future of civilisation.
- [Young people and planetary justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/young-people-and-planetary-justice): Ultimately, resolving the collective-action dilemma of preserving a liveable planet will require a UN ‘constitution of the Earth’.
- [Minimum-wage directive: the case for a ‘social partners option’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wage-directive-the-case-for-a-social-partners-option): Adding a ‘social partners option’ to the minimum-wage directive could unblock negotiations while protecting well-functioning collective bargaining systems.
- [On the EU’s Belarus border, security and fundamental rights collide](https://www.socialeurope.eu/on-the-eus-belarus-border-security-and-fundamental-rights-collide): Weronika Grzebalska argues that Lukashenka’s thrashing around in eastern Europe forces progressives to offer a positive alternative on security.
- [All together now: facing the global challenges of our time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/all-together-now-facing-the-global-challenges-of-our-time): Recent headlines make it seem an inauspicious moment for a progressive transatlantic political alliance—yet this couldn’t be more urgent.
- [Norway’s oil and money up for grabs in the coming election](https://www.socialeurope.eu/norways-oil-and-money-up-for-grabs-in-the-coming-election): Norway’s electorate has an existential choice to face about its Oil Fund, associated with domestic prosperity but looming climate catastrophe.
- [Rescuing the concept of precarity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rescuing-the-concept-of-precarity): The cause of the precariat isn’t helped by fuzzy thinking about who and what it is.
- [Not seeing the wood for the trees—the EU’s environmental blunder](https://www.socialeurope.eu/not-seeing-the-wood-for-the-trees-the-eus-environmental-blunder): Supporting a conversion to wood burning has unwittingly incentivised power plants to increase greenhouse gases.
- [Left-wing austerity during international crises—it’s the financial markets, stupid!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/left-wing-austerity-during-international-crises-its-the-financial-markets-stupid): Left governments adopted more conservative fiscal policies than right governments in recent crises. They have dire electoral consequences.
- [The consequences of neoliberal capitalism in eastern Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-consequences-of-neoliberal-capitalism-in-eastern-europe): Sheri Berman argues that post-communist left embrace of economic as well as political liberalism allowed populists to target the latter.
- [Progressive mayors in central and eastern Europe challenge the status quo](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progressive-mayors-in-central-and-eastern-europe-challenge-the-status-quo): Major cities in central and eastern Europe have elected liberal mayors. But socially conservative attitudes are unlikely to shift at national level.
- [Turkey and the Istanbul convention—fighting to keep it alive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/turkey-and-the-istanbul-convention-fighting-to-keep-it-alive): The Turkish president no doubt thinks his decision to de-ratify the Istanbul convention is irreversible. The main opposition party disagrees.
- [Wellbeing at work—it’s time to up the ante](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wellbeing-at-work-its-time-to-up-the-ante): The new EU health-and-safety strategy risks being a missed opportunity to address workplace mental health and wellbeing.
- [Platforms put a spoke in the wheels of Spain’s ‘riders’ law’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-put-a-spoke-in-the-wheels-of-spains-riders-law): The Ley de Riders, recognising delivery riders as employees, is now a reality. But is it a game-changer?
- [Stefan Löfven—welding progressives together and keeping the far right at bay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/stefan-lofven-welding-progressives-together-and-keeping-the-far-right-at-bay): The Swedish social-democrat leader, shortly to step down, didn’t buckle under pressure despite a slender parliamentary hold.
- [How Big Tech money skews the European playing-field](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-big-tech-money-skews-the-european-playing-field): Record spending by technology companies lobbying the EU represents a democratic problem.
- [National egoism versus planetary responsibility](https://www.socialeurope.eu/national-egoism-versus-planetary-responsibility): Tackling the climate crisis is fundamentally incompatible with our understanding of sovereignty.
- [Apocalypse or co-operation?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/apocalypse-or-co-operation): The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change, and resulting economic damage, will likely trigger much more social and political instability.
- [Climate change: labour’s neglected role](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-change-labours-neglected-role): The Paris Agreement’s goals can not be fulfilled if neoliberalism prevails—which means only labour’s participation can bring success.
- [Maximising the potential of the European Green Deal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/maximising-the-potential-of-the-european-green-deal): The European Green Deal doesn’t deserve uncritical support—but nor does it need sniping from the sidelines.
- [Amazon no longer absorbs carbon—has the world reached the point of no return?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/amazon-no-longer-absorbs-carbon-has-the-world-reached-the-point-of-no-return): The news that the Amazon rainforest is no longer a carbon sink puts a further big question-mark against the EU-Mercosur trade deal.
- [Europe gets back to the work … of getting people to work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-gets-back-to-the-work-of-getting-people-to-work): The notion that active-labour-market policies are the solution to unemployment has long been an act of faith. That’s the problem.
- [Dedramatising debt](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dedramatising-debt): Post-pandemic recovery and the green transition—and Europe’s competitiveness—depend on investment financed by joint borrowing.
- [Move fast and break Big Tech’s power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/move-fast-and-break-big-techs-power): ‘Surveillance capitalism’ can only be regulated on at least a European scale—and the mood for change is growing.
- [Mission-driven localities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mission-driven-localities): While exposing and exacerbating longstanding inequalities, the pandemic has given rise to a wealth of promising local initiatives.
- [ECB strategy review: the mountain has given birth to a mouse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ecb-strategy-review-the-mountain-has-given-birth-to-a-mouse): Peter Bofinger argues that the ECB strategy review represents a missed opportunity.
- [Enhancing the political participation of women from under-represented groups](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enhancing-the-political-participation-of-women-from-under-represented-groups): The author of a report to the Council of Europe elaborates how representation gaps can be closed so politics is refreshed and reflects wider society.
- [Recruiting irregular migrants to … fight irregular migration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/recruiting-irregular-migrants-to-fight-irregular-migration): The EU directive sanctioning employers for utilising irregular migrants is putting migrant workers who might complain in a Kafkaesque scenario.
- [Transatlantic trade co-operation: a lever for environmental and labour protection?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/transatlantic-trade-co-operation-a-lever-for-environmental-and-labour-protection): If the pitfalls of the last attempted transatlantic trade deal are avoided, this could be a vehicle for improving standards.
- [The long and winding road to global corporate tax justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-long-and-winding-road-to-global-corporate-tax-justice): In theory, the Biden administration and the EU can collaborate to end multinational tax abuse. In practice, it’s not that simple.
- [A chance for a social future](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-chance-for-a-social-future): Can the Conference on the Future of Europe be a turning point from a mere economic union to one of social rights?
- [The courage to change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-courage-to-change): Europe’s trade union and Christian business leaders appeal jointly for a new economic and social order after the pandemic.
- [The power of civil society in a post-pandemic world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-power-of-civil-society-in-a-post-pandemic-world): A vibrant civil society is essential to the foundations of democracy—a lesson especially important when those seem under siege.
- [Fighting Covid-19 requires fewer patents and more state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fighting-covid-19-requires-fewer-patents-and-more-state): Big Pharma has not been the real innovator in the fight against the pandemic and intellectual property rights must be reshaped to restore fairness.
- [Is Europe socially fit for the ‘Fit for 55’ package?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-europe-socially-fit-for-the-fit-for-55-package): The centrality of market mechanisms to the European Commission’s climate package poses big questions as to its effectiveness and distributional impact.
- [Towards global progressiveness](https://www.socialeurope.eu/towards-global-progressiveness): Branko Milanovic sets out an agenda for global progressives in the 21st century.
- [Corporate tax cuts do not boost growth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-tax-cuts-do-not-boost-growth): Implicit in the global ‘race to the bottom’ on corporation tax in recent decades has been that this favours growth. Yet does it?
- [Voices from the borders of Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/voices-from-the-borders-of-europe): It’s a lot easier to ignore the plight of the refugees at Europe’s borders if one doesn’t hear their stories.
- [A stronger voice for citizens in EU decision-making](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-stronger-voice-for-citizens-in-eu-decision-making): Last week the European Parliament endorsed a report by the author on enhancing civic participation in the deliberations of the union.
- [Minimum wages rise, but more slowly](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wages-rise-but-more-slowly): Convergence of central and eastern-European EU members towards older ones with high minimum wages is much stronger than in the Mediterranean countries.
- [A minimum-wage directive could undermine the Nordic model](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-minimum-wage-directive-could-undermine-the-nordic-model): Several negative effects need to be addressed in the current negotiations on the directive, in the Swedish trade union view.
- [Covid-19, women and the economy—it’s not all about care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-women-and-the-economy-its-not-all-about-care): There has been a macroeconomic blindspot in feminist narratives of the pandemic which unwittingly limits the scope of critique.
- [Climate crisis offers way out of monetary orthodoxy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/climate-crisis-offers-way-out-of-monetary-orthodoxy): The ECB’s strategy review, Adam Tooze writes, says more by its silences than its statements.
- [How to prevent a mental-health pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-prevent-a-mental-health-pandemic): The huge toll of Covid-19 on mental health highlights the need for public investment to tackle the vast reservoir of distress.
- [A future-fit recovery?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-future-fit-recovery): EU member states’ National Recovery and Resilience Plans have been assessed against their capacity for transformative change—and found wanting.
- [The future, post-Brexit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-post-brexit): Recognition of the EU’s gravitational pull on ‘global Britain’—and so any rapprochement—will take many years.
- [How many inequalities can the world fight at the same time?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-many-inequalities-can-the-world-fight-at-the-same-time): ‘Intersectionality’ can help frame the complexity of progressive politics in the context of a new transatlantic partnership.
- [Switzerland: defending workers’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/switzerland-defending-workers-rights): In the standoff between the federal government and the European Commission on wage protection, the former has right on its side.
- [Teleworking in the public sector](https://www.socialeurope.eu/teleworking-in-the-public-sector): The pandemic has accelerated teleworking in the public sector—but with inadequate planning have come mixed results.
- [Lessons learnt from the pandemic for long-term care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lessons-learnt-from-the-pandemic-for-long-term-care): After privatisation and austerity, long-term care needs to be restored to resilience and readiness for an ageing population.
- [For workers, another year of living dangerously](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-workers-another-year-of-living-dangerously): Workers have stood on the frontline of the pandemic, but the ITUC Global Rights Index documents an anti-worker agenda.
- [The soft underbelly of British politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-soft-underbelly-of-british-politics): A by-election in northern England highlights the corrosive atrophying of the UK body politic, Paul Mason writes.
- [How do we fix Europe’s presidency dilemma?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-do-we-fix-europes-presidency-dilemma): Who represents the EU internationally? ‘Sofagate’ reignited the issue and the Conference on the Future of Europe should aim to sort it.
- [For women in Turkey, the struggle continues](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-women-in-turkey-the-struggle-continues): As of today, the Istanbul convention ceases to be effective in Turkey. But that’s not the end of the story.
- [Releasing Europe’s democratic genie](https://www.socialeurope.eu/releasing-europes-democratic-genie): The Conference on the Future of Europe might sow the seeds of a genuine European political space.
- [Beyond waving rainbow flags](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-waving-rainbow-flags): Using the rainbow flag to symbolise an east-west divide in Europe risks playing into the hands of authoritarian leaders.
- [Revised posted workers directive: throwing out the baby with the bathwater?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/revised-posted-workers-directive-throwing-out-the-baby-with-the-bathwater): The EU needs to acknowledge the vital economic role of posting and differentiate the rules according to its different types.
- [The Catalan pardons: what do they mean?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-catalan-pardons-what-do-they-mean): Last week the Spanish premier, Pedro Sánchez, pardoned the nine Catalan political prisoners—to very mixed reactions.
- [Pushed over the cliff-edge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pushed-over-the-cliff-edge): Kate Pickett argues the pandemic has not only massively affected public health but compounded the unhealthy effects of years of job insecurity.
- [When capital relinquishes ownership](https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-capital-relinquishes-ownership): As the ownership of firms becomes transferred to algorithmically-controlled index funds, why not put their human employees in charge instead?
- [The platform economy—time for more democracy at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-platform-economy-time-for-more-democracy-at-work): The platform economy has intensified power imbalances between companies and their workers, which only collective voice can redress.
- [Strengthening social and labour rights for farmers and farm workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strengthening-social-and-labour-rights-for-farmers-and-farm-workers): The opportunity of CAP reform to cultivate fairer and more sustainable agriculture must not be wasted.
- [A ‘vision zero’ goal for accidents at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-vision-zero-goal-for-accidents-at-work): There are no acceptable levels of workplace fatalities—a focus on prevention is needed.
- [International Public Service Day—a day of celebration, action and resistance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/international-public-service-day-a-day-of-celebration-action-and-resistance): Strong public administrations and well-funded public services are needed to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.
- [Public services and the common good](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-services-and-the-common-good): In these authoritarian times, defending and re-empowering public services is also defending democracy.
- [Child Guarantee—for most, but not all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/child-guarantee-for-most-but-not-all): The adoption of the European Child Guarantee is a big step forward. It will take another, however, to end institutional care.
- [The G7’s role in the world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-g7s-role-in-the-world): Jayati Ghosh unpicks the G7 summit in England and finds an anachronistic coalition failing to meet global responsibilities.
- [Trading on hope: why projections of the EU-Mercosur agreement are unreliable](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trading-on-hope-why-projections-of-the-eu-mercosur-agreement-are-unreliable): The EU-Mercosur agreement, on which negotiations ended a year ago, awaits signing and ratification. They should be in no rush.
- [Are social clauses really just hidden protectionism?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/are-social-clauses-really-just-hidden-protectionism): Social clauses in trade deals are sometimes represented as a premise for denial of market access to developing countries. The evidence suggests otherwise.
- [Inflation in the strongest recovery since 1945](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inflation-in-the-strongest-recovery-since-1945): Governments should ignore siren warnings that only hyperinflation can come from pandemic-induced investments.
- [A Europe free of elder abuse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-europe-free-of-elder-abuse): The European Commission’s Green Paper on Ageing has a blindspot—elder abuse.
- [Pollution: no acceptable levels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pollution-no-acceptable-levels): ‘Zero pollution’ is a very good goal for the European Union to adopt—but only if zero means zero.
- [A first tango in Glasgow?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-first-tango-in-glasgow): A new transatlantic relationship is critical to any hope of global realisation of the goals of the Paris agreement.
- [As Polish women flock towards volunteer defence, the left remains inept](https://www.socialeurope.eu/as-polish-women-flock-towards-volunteer-defence-the-left-remains-inept): Weronika Grzebalska begins a new Social Europe column by exploring how the liberal left in Poland has abdicated to the populists the resonant theme of women and defence.
- [People v Shell: from ‘corporate social responsibility’ to legal accountability](https://www.socialeurope.eu/people-v-shell-from-corporate-social-responsibility-to-legal-accountability): The successful action by citizens and NGOs in a Dutch court against Shell has sent a frisson through corporate boardrooms—with reason.
- [‘Danger money’ bungs will not quell labour unrest in health and social care](https://www.socialeurope.eu/danger-money-bungs-will-not-quell-labour-unrest-in-health-and-social-care): The concerns of health and care workers go well beyond the pandemic and pay, touching on their human dignity.
- [EU migration and asylum pact abandons compassion and human rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-migration-and-asylum-pact-abandons-compassion-and-human-rights): Faced with escalating deaths in the Mediterranean, official Europe needs to relocate its moral conscience.
- [What is NATO for?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-is-nato-for): Since the end of the cold war, NATO has struggled to find a role. It can find it in a focus on human security.
- [Defending democratic values](https://www.socialeurope.eu/defending-democratic-values): The cement for a new transatlantic relationship should be a common commitment to democracy in a world of rising authoritarian challenges.
- [Democracy, activism and the rule of law—key weapons against fascism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-activism-and-the-rule-of-law-key-weapons-against-fascism): Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it.
- [Strategies for a world without right-wing populism and nationalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strategies-for-a-world-without-right-wing-populism-and-nationalism): The radical right has been setting the agenda in terms of identity and security. Social democrats need to recapture it and redefine Europe.
- [Robots, jobs and the future of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/robots-jobs-and-the-future-of-work): Apocalyptic visions of robots stealing workers’ jobs are not only misguided but have diverted attention from more significant trends.
- [Threats to American democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/threats-to-american-democracy): Sheri Berman warns that while the threats may seem incremental they pose a real danger—which Europeans should note.
- [Taxing global rent-seeking to spur a just recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-global-rent-seeking-to-spur-a-just-recovery): The world must engage with Joe Biden’s proposal for a minimum corporate-tax rate.
- [From California capitalism to Bidenomics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-california-capitalism-to-bidenomics): The Biden administration’s ambitious spending and investment programmes have already proven highly successful in the country’s most dynamic state.
- [Should governments worry about general strikes?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/should-governments-worry-about-general-strikes): Unions can weaken public support for governments they oppose through general strikes—but not if the government is of the right.
- [Workplace, public space: workers organising in the age of facial recognition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workplace-public-space-workers-organising-in-the-age-of-facial-recognition): ‘Surveillance capitalism’ is increasingly threatening workers’ collective action and the human right to public protest.
- [Migration and innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/migration-and-innovation): The bad news for Germany’s sophisticated economy is innovation by indigenous Germans is declining. The good news is migrants are more than compensating.
- [Belarus: toughness towards the regime, solidarity with the people](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belarus-toughness-towards-the-regime-solidarity-with-the-people): Alongside working to confront Lukashenka, the EU should offer respite to those threatened by his dictatorship.
- [It’s time to rewrite the macroeconomic rulebook for the euro area](https://www.socialeurope.eu/its-time-to-rewrite-the-macroeconomic-rulebook-for-the-euro-area): Peter Bofinger contends that the economic impact of the pandemic has rendered obsolete the old eurozone fiscal rules.
- [Double standards on Palestine will come back to haunt the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/double-standards-on-palestine-will-come-back-to-haunt-the-eu): The EU needs to engage in a paradigm shift on the Israel-Palestine conflict if it is not to be left behind by events.
- [Can rental intermediation improve the right to housing in France?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-rental-intermediation-improve-the-right-to-housing-in-france): ‘Housing first’ has become good practice in ending homelessness, in various European countries, especially for those with complex needs.
- [Catalonia: time for a gesture?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/catalonia-time-for-a-gesture): Spain’s Supreme Court has put Pedro Sánchez between a rock and a hard place.
- [Recognising people on the move](https://www.socialeurope.eu/recognising-people-on-the-move): Europe cannot continue to treat those who arrive on its margins—as in Ceuta—as mere flotsam and jetsam to be repelled.
- [The climate X factor](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-climate-x-factor): The climate and biodiversity crises we face demand not only carbon-neutral energy sources but also a circular economy.
- [Europe failing its solidarity test](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-failing-its-solidarity-test): By blocking Covid-19 vaccine patent waivers, the EU is damaging its reputation and holding the world back.
- [Tourism in Europe: a new model](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tourism-in-europe-a-new-model): Rebuilding tourism is a priority but the sector must become more sustainable and resilient, with workers and quality jobs at the heart of recovery.
- [The marginalisation of Africa](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-marginalisation-of-africa): Branko Milanovic argues African countries are not powerless to influence the global economic debates that marginalise them.
- [Ethical consumerism meets ‘eco-awakening’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ethical-consumerism-meets-eco-awakening): If consumers are not given the tools to go green, then their eco-awakening could doom the climate.
- [Can Europe roll back the normalisation of precarious work for young people?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-europe-roll-back-the-normalisation-of-precarious-work-for-young-people): After the financial crash, the pandemic has rendered the labour market for young people across Europe even more precarious than before.
- [Does it take a pandemic to relaunch European social dialogue?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-it-take-a-pandemic-to-relaunch-european-social-dialogue): One of the unwitting effects of the crisis has been to remake the case for dialogue between social partners to solve major problems.
- [The debt hawks are flapping their wings](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-debt-hawks-are-flapping-their-wings): Post-pandemic Europe, Adam Tooze writes, can’t entertain a return to pre-crisis fiscal rules.
- [Work harder: the Porto Social Summit’s call to Europe’s welfare states](https://www.socialeurope.eu/work-harder-the-porto-social-summits-call-to-europes-welfare-states): Welfare states are having to run harder to stand still. They need to act in mutual support to win the race against inequality and poverty.
- [What should a female career and family structure post-pandemic look like?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-should-a-female-career-and-family-structure-post-pandemic-look-like): The pandemic threatens to exacerbate gender inequalities and reinforce the association between women and unpaid care—unless contrary action is taken.
- [Insecure in work, vulnerable to infection](https://www.socialeurope.eu/insecure-in-work-vulnerable-to-infection): Research by the British TUC has highlighted how the many insecure workers in the UK have been exposed to disproportionate Covid-19 risk.
- [A shot in the arm](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-shot-in-the-arm): The European Union needs to raise its vaccination target and bring it forward. The good news is it can.
- [Hard Labour](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hard-labour): Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way.
- [Next steps for a people’s vaccine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/next-steps-for-a-peoples-vaccine): Ending the pandemic requires not only an intellectual-property rights waiver but scaling up knowledge transfer and public production of vaccine supplies.
- [Decentralising and democratising while reforming European economic governance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/decentralising-and-democratising-while-reforming-european-economic-governance): The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to address how EU governance can be refitted to end the crisis of legitimacy.
- [The Social Summit—and beyond](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-social-summit-and-beyond): Concrete commitments must follow today’s Social Summit in Porto if the promise of a social Europe is to be realised.
- [Pay your taxes where your profit is](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pay-your-taxes-where-your-profit-is): The long-simmering demand that multinationals provide country-by-country reporting of their tax payments is coming to a dénouement.
- [What price a life?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-price-a-life): Kate Pickett widens the panorama from the all-consuming coverage in Britain of the death of Prince Philip to ask why human lives and labours are so differentially valued.
- [Why we need gender-responsive central banking](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-we-need-gender-responsive-central-banking): The pandemic has deepened gender disparities. Central banks must recognise they have a role to play in reversing these trends.
- [Public procurement: ending the race to the bottom on workers’ conditions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-procurement-ending-the-race-to-the-bottom-on-workers-conditions): On International Workers’ Memorial Day, it’s worth remembering that when workers don’t have a say they may lose more than their voice.
- [Covid-19 in India—profits before people](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-in-india-profits-before-people): Jayati Ghosh explains why more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported in India daily—and what that says about our world.
- [Good news for gender equality as we exit the Covid-19 crisis?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/good-news-for-gender-equality-as-we-exit-the-covid-19-crisis): The pandemic has had differential impacts on women. Raised consciousness about them must be applied to advance gender equality in recovery measures.
- [Erdoğan is feeling the heat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/erdogan-is-feeling-the-heat): Growing economic pains and a more united opposition threaten the Turkish president’s grip. His regime resorts to ever more repression.
- [A long-overdue step on EU sustainability reporting](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-long-overdue-step-on-eu-sustainability-reporting): A draft directive on sustainability reporting begins to address the challenge of turning the corporate tanker towards a zero-emissions 2050.
- [‘Old’ rules and protections for the ‘new’ world of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/old-rules-and-protections-for-the-new-world-of-work): A ‘rebuttable presumption of employment’ is emerging as a response to platforms denying their workers employee status.
- [Does it make sense to question the morality of capitalism?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-it-make-sense-to-question-the-morality-of-capitalism): Keynes warned that ‘practical men’ were often in thrall to some dead economist. In fact many leading economists have agreed on the idea of guaranteed work.
- [Can virtual addresses provide a gateway to rights for homeless people?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-virtual-addresses-provide-a-gateway-to-rights-for-homeless-people): Europe’s lockdowns highlighted the right to housing—and its link to health and security. For many, however, it remains a distant privilege.
- [Northern Ireland—the unhappy ending Europe’s story must avoid](https://www.socialeurope.eu/northern-ireland-the-unhappy-ending-europes-story-must-avoid): Europe has always had its anti-enlightenment side. Northern Ireland graphically presents its extreme manifestation.
- [The ‘long Covid’ of work relations and the future of remote work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-long-covid-of-work-relations-and-the-future-of-remote-work): The pandemic made us all familiar with ‘social distancing’. Employers are starting to glimpse a future where ‘contractual distancing’ is normalised.
- [The European Union and global governance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-union-and-global-governance): The EU’s strategic ambition must not be just to carve out a niche for itself among the major powers but to reshape global governance.
- [Nineteen Burmese protesters sentenced to death—Europe get off your sofa!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/nineteen-burmese-protesters-sentenced-to-death-europe-get-off-your-sofa): The military in Myanmar is fully aware of Europe’s response to the killing spree against democracy protesters. It is not impressed.
- [Europe’s democratic renewal needs a feminist slant](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-democratic-renewal-needs-a-feminist-slant): The Conference on the Future of Europe shouldn’t degenerate into political theatre. Politicians need to listen and give a voice to citizens.
- [Dealing with the right-wing populist challenge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dealing-with-the-right-wing-populist-challenge): Sheri Berman explores what the Swedish case reveals about strategies to adopt towards right-wing populist parties.
- [Taming the Big Tech tiger](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taming-the-big-tech-tiger): New EU digital rules need to tackle the business model of surveillance capitalism.
- [How to stimulate the economy after the lockdown](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-stimulate-the-economy-after-the-lockdown): A ‘helicopter money’ stimulus of direct payments to individuals, as in the US, would be neither well targeted nor transformatory in Europe.
- [White, rich, safe: Covid-19 exposes health inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/white-rich-safe-covid-19-exposes-health-inequality): The distribution of coronavirus vaccine around the world is glaringly unjust. But many wealthy countries have an equity problem of their own.
- [Democracy in Iceland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-in-iceland): Iceland enjoys the general perception of Nordic countries as well-governed democracies. Its oligarchs would prefer that that remain so.
- [The eurozone won’t work without safe government bonds](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eurozone-wont-work-without-safe-government-bonds): The arcane notion of ‘monetary dominance’ lay behind the last eurozone crisis. Unless challenged, it could underlie another one.
- [Why the protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland matters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-protocol-on-ireland-northern-ireland-matters): The protocol is a small part of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement but it has enormous implications for both parties. It is imperative they tread with care.
- [A simultaneously expanding and shrinking world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-simultaneously-expanding-and-shrinking-world): Branko Milanovic warns that the post-pandemic world could see further polarisation in a now global labour market.
- [Work-life conflict in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/work-life-conflict-in-europe): Work and life are often thought of as a zero-sum of hours in conflict but work-life balance also depends on investment in care and men’s full participation in the home.
- [A small step towards gender equality in pay](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-small-step-towards-gender-equality-in-pay): The European Commission’s proposal to reduce the stubborn gender pay gap pulls some punches, apparently anticipating employer resistance.
- [A newer Labour?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-newer-labour): The British Labour Party has had a tortuous time over the last decade. But there are hints of openness towards new solutions to its problems.
- [Green markets won’t save us](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-markets-wont-save-us): Markets are an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change.
- [Interview with Alexander Kwaśniewski](https://www.socialeurope.eu/interview-with-alexander-kwasniewski): Ania Skrzypek spoke to the former Polish president about the crisis in Belarus and the response of the European Union.
- [Covid-19 and Europe-wide inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-and-europe-wide-inequality): Between 2017 and 2019, income disparities in Europe decreased. The pandemic stopped that decline.
- [Europe’s decarbonisation challenge? ‘Wir schaffen das’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-decarbonisation-challenge-wir-schaffen-das): Adam Tooze writes on the roadmaps to net-zero by 2050. Is a just transition for Europe realistic?
- [Race against time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/race-against-time): With the resurgence of racism and discrimination across Europe, combating it requires urgent action, not just noble words.
- [Spain’s platform workers win algorithm transparency](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spains-platform-workers-win-algorithm-transparency): Legal amendments will not only recognise ‘riders’ as employees but require algorithm transparency from platforms generally.
- [Germany’s super-election year is a wild card](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-super-election-year-is-a-wild-card): With the federal government now perceived as mishandling the pandemic and corruption tainting the CDU, the autumn Bundestag election is one to watch.
- [Hungary’s Covid-19 wars](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hungarys-covid-19-wars): For Viktor Orbán, the pandemic has offered an opportunity to undermine the European Union and curry favour with Hungary’s authoritarian allies.
- [Venturing the green transformation?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/venturing-the-green-transformation): Under the European Green Deal, venture-capital firms are expected to play a vital investment role—one for which they are singularly ill-suited.
- [Lost an empire, not found a role](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lost-an-empire-not-found-a-role): Paul Mason finds in the UK’s foreign and defence review a wilful refusal of its natural European engagement.
- [‘Migrants’ moral panic still leading to lost lives](https://www.socialeurope.eu/migrants-moral-panic-still-leading-to-lost-lives): The pandemic has overshadowed, but not reduced, refugee flows to Europe. Damaging misconceptions of asylum-seekers haven’t softened either.
- [Social pillar Action Plan—longer on aspiration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-pillar-action-plan-longer-on-aspiration): The Action Plan shows ambition on poverty, employment and training. But the concrete measures are not (yet) up to the task.
- [Taxing better to create more caring—and feminist—societies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-better-to-create-more-caring-and-feminist-societies): International Women’s Day falls in the shadow of a pandemic which has hit women hard around the world.
- [Fissures that tear us apart and pressures that weigh us all down](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fissures-that-tear-us-apart-and-pressures-that-weigh-us-all-down): Kate Pickett contends in a new Social Europe column that inequalities go together—and so their opponents shouldn’t get drawn into rivalry.
- [Inequalities and democratic corrosion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inequalities-and-democratic-corrosion): The right question to ask is not if inequality threatens democracy but which inequalities matter.
- [Don’t defund the BBC](https://www.socialeurope.eu/dont-defund-the-bbc): Rather than public institutions being limited to fixing market failures, organisations such as the BBC are also market shapers.
- [Leaving behind the EU’s deadly addiction to deregulation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/leaving-behind-the-eus-deadly-addiction-to-deregulation): Better regulation is benevolent and participatory, cognisant of complexity and future-oriented. Deregulation it is not.
- [Making EU regulation better for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-eu-regulation-better-for-all): The stigma attached to democratic EU regulation by the ‘one in, one out’ approach must be replaced by a positive commitment to the common good.
- [Aligning the social pillar with human rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/aligning-the-social-pillar-with-human-rights): The Action Plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights could lead to a profound shift in the enjoyment of human rights in the EU.
- [Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-europe-could-make-good-use-of-a-new-sdr-allocation): Jayati Ghosh begins a new Social Europe column by pricking Europe’s conscience on its pandemic-related responsibilities towards the developing world.
- [The four ‘I’s of a new socio-ecological contract](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-four-is-of-a-new-socio-ecological-contract): A ‘socio-ecological contract’ has emerged as a way to conceive the transitions needed to steer out of today’s crises to safer harbour. What does it entail?
- [Human-rights due diligence and Myanmar](https://www.socialeurope.eu/human-rights-due-diligence-and-myanmar): Myanmar is a test case for engaged global companies’ commitments to due diligence. They must act to ensure suppression does not prevail.
- [UK gig drivers recognised as workers—what next?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/uk-gig-drivers-recognised-as-workers-what-next): The UK’s highest court has delivered another benchmark judgment on gig workers. But the battle is not over.
- [Covid-19: a tale of two service sectors](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-a-tale-of-two-service-sectors): If the 2008 crash brought on a ‘mancession’ of lost jobs, the sectors most hit by the pandemic employ mainly low-paid women workers.
- [EU credibility as a people’s union rests on the social pillar](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-credibility-as-a-peoples-union-rests-on-the-social-pillar): Buffeted by the pandemic and by populism, the EU needs the European Pillar of Social Rights to become a solid anchor of security for all.
- [Vaccine nationalism won’t defeat the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/vaccine-nationalism-wont-defeat-the-pandemic): International co-operation is vital to make vaccination, as a public good, available to all.
- [Managing the unavoidable impact of climate change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/managing-the-unavoidable-impact-of-climate-change): While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy.
- [Can we change the climate on climate change?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-we-change-the-climate-on-climate-change): Karin Pettersson is impressed by a fictional account of the existential challenge humanity faces.
- [Bearing the brunt: the impact of Covid-19 on women](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bearing-the-brunt-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women): The pandemic has proved not to be an equal-opportunity destroyer of economic and social wellbeing.
- [Germany adds to recognition of platform workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-adds-to-recognition-of-platform-workers): The Federal Labour Court ruled late last year that a crowdworker was indeed an employee, despite the platform’s contrary claim.
- [Can Navalny take down Putin?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-navalny-take-down-putin): Today’s protest movement has a charismatic and sympathetic leader but Putin has spent the last decade consolidating a police state.
- [Have you met Dan Gertler?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/have-you-met-dan-gertler): Europe needs to step up its fight against money-laundering.
- [Ursula von der Leyen’s mission ‘to the moon’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ursula-von-der-leyens-mission-to-the-moon): The European Green Deal rests on the commitment of the 27 member states. The fate of the renewable-energy directive shows the scale of that challenge.
- [Why such an imperfect union?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-such-an-imperfect-union): US political dysfunctionality is put down to partisanship and polarisation. But Sheri Berman argues it’s the issue agenda that counts.
- [Will Biden restore worker and union power?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-biden-restore-worker-and-union-power): Joe Biden was the most pro-labour presidential nominee in years. But he’s fighting a pandemic and faces the antiquated US political system.
- [Algorithmic control](https://www.socialeurope.eu/algorithmic-control): Work in the social sciences on algorithmic systems can inform how unions address their impact on the power balance between workers and employers.
- [EU-Mercosur free-trade pact risks irreversible destruction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-mercosur-free-trade-pact-risks-irreversible-destruction): With environment issues rising quickly up the EU agenda, it’s time to get trade and ecological policies into coherent alignment.
- [Green intentions, brown outcomes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-intentions-brown-outcomes): If the EU does not address its role in domestic deforestation it will never reach its goal of carbon neutrality.
- [Bitcoin lacks a unique selling proposition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bitcoin-lacks-a-unique-selling-proposition): Peter Bofinger identifies the cryptocurrency’s Achilles heel.
- [The false scarcity of vaccine trade tensions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [From moonshots to earthshots](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-moonshots-to-earthshots): The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.
- [It is the ECB’s job to close spreads](https://www.socialeurope.eu/it-is-the-ecbs-jobs-to-close-spreads): Spreads in a single market with a single currency distort trade flows and competitiveness. The European Central Bank should close them.
- [The problem with the Covid convergence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-problem-with-the-covid-convergence): A surprising global trend in the pandemic is reduced inequality across countries—but the convergence reflects losses at the top, not gains at the bottom.
- [Time to act on pay transparency](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-act-on-pay-transparency): The pandemic provides no excuse for inaction by the European Commission on gender pay transparency. It should be the incentive.
- [A time to celebrate … or worry?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-time-to-celebrate-or-worry): Branko Milanovic worries that in the new global constellation a second cold war—with China—could be in the offing.
- [A rail renaissance for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [‘The day of liberation is a bit like a second birthday for me’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-day-of-liberation-is-a-bit-like-a-second-birthday-for-me): Knut Dethlefsen offers a personal reflection on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
- [Supplying critical goods: lessons from the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/supplying-critical-goods-lessons-from-the-pandemic): Security of supply for medical and pharmaceutical goods must become a high political priority—with industrial policies promoting reshoring.
- [Big Tech media and the EU’s weak reed of ‘competition’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-tech-media-and-the-eus-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.
- [An end to wage-dumping in the German meat industry?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-end-to-wage-dumping-in-the-german-meat-industry): The German meat industry is being pushed off its low road of migrant-labour exploitation towards regulation and potential collective agreement.
- [Time to put an end to union-busting](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-put-an-end-to-union-busting): Trade union rights are human rights and must be protected in EU law.
- [Europe’s ‘long-Covid’ economic frailty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-long-covid-economic-frailty): Last year’s agreement on an EU recovery package was widely celebrated. This year its inadequacy will sink in.
- [Spain: more stable employment contracts](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spain-more-stable-employment-contracts): The Supreme Court has modified its jurisprudence on subcontracting, limiting the scope for abuse of temporary contracts.
- [Must try harder: recovering from educational inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Unsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unsplendid-isolation-britain-after-brexit): Paul Mason writes that a Biden US presidency allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role.
- [Belarus needs more than the Sakharov Prize](https://www.socialeurope.eu/belarus-needs-more-than-the-sakharov-prize): Strengthening of civil society, construction of democratic institutions and economic support must all figure in an EU agenda for a post-Lukashenka Belarus.
- [What saved American democracy?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-saved-american-democracy): Democracy in the United States survived the assault by Donald Trump and his supporting mob. But why it survived raises questions awkward for some.
- [Whither America?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whither-america): It will take more than one person—and more than one presidential term—to overcome America’s longstanding challenges.
- [No time to spare for the Paris climate promise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-time-to-spare-for-the-paris-climate-promise): Having squandered past opportunities and shirked previous commitments, we now must start making up for lost time.
- [MEPs need to listen to more voices on artificial intelligence](https://www.socialeurope.eu/meps-need-to-listen-to-more-voices-on-artificial-intelligence): The European Parliament’s committee exploring AI needs to give the floor to civil society. Big Tech has had enough influence.
- [Build back better—then pay for it](https://www.socialeurope.eu/build-back-better-then-pay-for-it): The pandemic-linked crisis is not the time for fiscal consolidation. But introducing a genuinely progressive tax system will become essential.
- [Protecting European migrants’ rights](https://www.socialeurope.eu/protecting-european-migrants-rights): National and EU-level action are needed to make seasonal labour migration in the single market a ‘win-win’ for the member states involved.
- [Germany bows to Keynes, again](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-bows-to-keynes-again): Say it quietly, but Germany has learnt the lessons of Keynes. Would that others had done so too.
- [The UK’s European question is far from over](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-uks-european-question-is-far-from-over): ‘Brexit’ stemmed from the takeover of the Tory party by its Eurosceptic fringe, whose prejudices will now collide with reality.
- [The seven secrets of 2020](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-seven-secrets-of-2020): National governments had been choosing not to exercise enormous powers so those globalisation had enriched could exercise their own.
- [Capital and ideology: interview with Thomas Piketty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capital-and-ideology-interview-with-thomas-piketty): Thomas Piketty tells Robin Wilson how wealth and power can be transferred from capital to workers and citizens.
- [Border pushbacks: it’s time for impunity to end](https://www.socialeurope.eu/border-pushbacks-its-time-for-impunity-to-end): Research on pushbacks of asylum-seekers reveals a massive number of such human-rights violations—yet it could be just the tip of the iceberg.
- [Closing the representation gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/closing-the-representation-gap): Sheri Berman argues that the embourgeoisement of centre-left parties has fostered a crisis of representation, at the heart of democratic dissatisfaction.
- [Corporate taxation—momentum is building](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corporate-taxation-momentum-is-building): The international system for business taxation is starting to crumble. Now is the time for civil society to apply pressure.
- [Eurozone reform—it’s not just the fiscal rules](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eurozone-reform-its-not-just-the-fiscal-rules): At least as important is the reform of the procedure for preventing and correcting macroeconomic imbalances.
- [The many worlds of work in the 4.0 era](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-many-worlds-of-work-in-the-4-0-era): The transformation of work is not simply from jobs to automation. Its complex, variable character demands a matching policy portfolio.
- [New forms of employment in Europe—how new is new?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/new-forms-of-employment-in-europe-how-new-is-new): Standard employment is not simply being replaced by non-standard work. But work is becoming more diverse and policy must accordingly become more tailored.
- [Easing the EU fiscal straitjacket](https://www.socialeurope.eu/easing-the-eu-fiscal-straitjacket): Without major reform of the EU fiscal framework, Peter Bofinger argues, public investment will be insufficient in the wake of the pandemic.
- [Joe Biden’s missing coat-tails](https://www.socialeurope.eu/joe-bidens-missing-coat-tails): Attention across the world to the US elections has focused only on the federal level. But the battle for the statehouses mattered too.
- [Covid-19: more action needed to secure workers’ safety](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-more-action-needed-to-secure-workers-safety): The pandemic has highlighted how public health and workers’ safety are closely intertwined.
- [A fair, humane and realistic asylum policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-fair-humane-and-realistic-asylum-policy): A workable asylum policy in line with European values could be pursued by a Schengen-style coalition of the willing.
- [Collective voice for platform workers: riders’ union struggles in Italy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-voice-for-platform-workers-riders-union-struggles-in-italy): Autonomous unions, allied with trade union confederations, have shown how collective bargaining can be won by the precariat which employers seek to fragment.
- [Brexit and the misunderstanding of sovereignty](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brexit-and-the-misunderstanding-of-sovereignty): While the negotiators haggle over a deal to avoid a new-year car crash, the fundamental problem is the obsolete notion of sovereignty held in London.
- [Reform of global taxation cannot wait](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reform-of-global-taxation-cannot-wait): The huge fiscal pressures occasioned by the pandemic mean global tax-gaming by corporations and the wealthy is a luxury we can no longer afford.
- [The first global event in the history of humankind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-first-global-event-in-the-history-of-humankind): While some talk of ‘deglobalisation’, Branko Milanovic argues that the pandemic will push forward the globalisation of labour.
- [The Biden victory and the future of the centre-left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-biden-victory-and-the-future-of-the-centre-left): Postwar global progress has hinged on a transatlantic alliance of progressive parties. The election in the United States potentially opens a new chapter.
- [Gig-life balance?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/gig-life-balance): Impossible hours carved out by apps have often been presented as if self-determined ‘flexibility’ on the part of workers.
- [Not part of Europe anyway?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Light in the tunnel or oncoming train?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/light-in-the-tunnel-or-oncoming-train): Adam Tooze argues that the frail eurozone recovery hinges entirely on its guarantee by the European Central Bank.
- [Breaking the impasse on corporate taxation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/breaking-the-impasse-on-corporate-taxation): As Europe’s exchequers go deep into the red due to the pandemic, a co-ordinated approach to corporate taxation is ever-more urgent.
- [The rule of law: a simple phrase with exacting demands](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-rule-of-law-a-simple-phrase-with-exacting-demands): If the finger is to be pointed—rightly—at Hungary and Poland, then the EU must insist on compliance by all with universal norms.
- [The platform economy—time for decent ‘digiwork’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-platform-economy-time-for-decent-digiwork): Unless the platform economy becomes embedded in social norms about decent work, it threatens to rewrite society in its own image.
- [Care, capitalism and politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Shaping the future of democracy at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shaping-the-future-of-democracy-at-work): Action is needed at European level to ensure workers enjoy democracy at work, particularly in the context of digitalisation.
- [Greater equality: our guide through Covid-19 to sustainable wellbeing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Legal hurdles facing a green and just transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/legal-hurdles-facing-a-green-and-just-transition): The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this.
- [How good journalism can drive out bad](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Barrelling towards the ‘Brexit’ cliff edge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/barrelling-towards-the-brexit-cliff-edge): The most frightening thing is not the UK government’s end-game strategy, Paul Mason writes. It’s that there isn’t one.
- [Tax havens: patience is running out](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tax-havens-patience-is-running-out): The OECD has proved unable to tackle tax havens, so it is up to the European Union to do so.
- [Europe must stand up to Hungary and Poland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-must-stand-up-to-hungary-and-poland): The European Union cannot afford to compromise on the rule-of-law provisions it applies to the funds it allocates to member states.
- [The transformative impact of tech firms’ technologies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-transformative-impact-of-tech-firms-technologies): The potential benefits of new technologies for workplace health and safety are being vitiated by a profit-focused approach.
- [The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [A proposal to legislate for the rights of platform workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-proposal-to-legislate-for-the-rights-of-platform-workers): The platform corporations have just won a battle in California over classifying their workers as ‘contractors’. An EU directive is required to take the opposite tack.
- [The rise of right-wing nationalism: from Poland to Polanyi](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-rise-of-right-wing-nationalism-poland-and-polanyi): Karin Pettersson argues that far from history ‘ending’ in 1989 it has returned, with a vengeance, due to the very deregulation its trumpeters embraced.
- [The lost cause of the Trumpocracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-lost-cause-of-the-trumpocracy): Like the southerners who never could get over their loss in the American civil war, Trump has nothing left but his own mythology.
- [A new pact for asylum in Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Minimum-wage directive: yes, but …](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wage-directive-yes-but): The draft minimum-wage directive is a crucial first step but more needs to follow on the way to a social Europe.
- [How can the EU achieve a fair distribution of the tax burden?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-can-the-eu-achieve-a-fair-distribution-of-the-tax-burden): Falling corporate taxation has been matched by a rising contribution from labour. But there are ways to redress the balance between citizens and companies.
- [Joe Biden should not miss the Bretton Woods moment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/joe-biden-should-not-miss-the-bretton-woods-moment): Peter Bofinger argues the incoming president must abjure the mercantilist language of his predecessor in favour of a progressive response to globalisation.
- [Time to transform transport](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [The right to socially useful work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-right-to-socially-useful-work): Amid the 1970s economic crisis in Britain, Lucas Aerospace workers, threatened with redundancy, developed a plan for socially useful work. It’s an idea whose time has come.
- [The financial-transactions tax we need in the age of coronavirus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-financial-transactions-tax-we-need-in-the-age-of-coronavirus): Five decades on, a ‘Tobin tax’ is no longer fit for purpose. Now what should be taxed, progressively, is all financial flows.
- [An effective corporation-tax system for the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-effective-corporation-tax-system-for-the-eu): Tax wars have so far denied the EU the unanimity required to stop the race to the bottom on corporation tax.
- [Work for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/work-for-all): An EU-wide job guarantee would be a counter-cyclical measure to tackle the health, employment and ecological crises together.
- [Is the coronavirus going to reshape the European welfare state?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-the-coronavirus-going-to-reshape-the-european-welfare-state): In the wake of the pandemic, the classical variety of national welfare models must be transformed into a multi-level social citizenship.
- [A watershed moment for citizenship education in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-watershed-moment-for-citizenship-education-in-europe): The pandemic has reinforced the need for citizenship education, so individuals are equipped to cope with its global challenges—and all the others.
- [A new start for transatlantic social democracy?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-start-for-transatlantic-social-democracy): A Biden administration could join forces with progressive Europe to rebut polarising populism on both sides of the pond.
- [A human-centred approach to the future of work: time to walk the walk](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-human-centred-approach-to-the-future-of-work-time-to-walk-the-walk): The centenary of the International Labour Organization saw publication of a major report on the future of work. Action on its recommendations is now even more urgent.
- [Poland’s abortion protests—democratic standards at stake](https://www.socialeurope.eu/polands-abortion-protests-democratic-standards-at-stake): The passion behind the demonstrations signifies a battle for basic democratic standards in a world of creeping authoritarian temptations.
- [An economic recovery that puts workers and the climate first](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-economic-recovery-that-puts-workers-and-the-climate-first): The US election provides an opportunity to take stock of where the country is headed and whether it is addressing the deepening crises its society faces.
- [Women and welfare: interview with Mary Daly](https://www.socialeurope.eu/women-and-welfare-interview-with-mary-daly): Mary Daly tells Robin Wilson that the coronavirus crisis has exposed the partial and limited nature of gender-equality gains.
- [How to move forward](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-move-forward): Sheri Berman explores how progressives can offer viable solutions and build effective political coalitions to reverse the populist victories since the financial crisis.
- [Freedom is why Black Lives Matter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/freedom-is-why-black-lives-matter): The US presidential election highlights the gap between the promise of freedom and justice and reality for African-Americans fuelling the recent protests.
- [Consumer policy after Covid-19—fostering social cohesion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/consumer-policy-after-covid-19-fostering-social-cohesion): The pandemic has highlighted the need for a new EU consumer policy, fit for a more digitalised and sustainable world.
- [Social dialogue: an opportunity in the midst of crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-dialogue-an-opportunity-in-the-midst-of-crisis): Some claim social dialogue is a luxury in a crisis when quick decisions are needed. On the contrary, the pandemic has proved.
- [Fair wages are key to Europe’s recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fair-wages-are-key-to-europes-recovery): Ensuring a high wage floor in the EU is not just the right thing to do to lift the low paid but is integral to recovery from the pandemic.
- [‘Veggie burger’ ban: bad for consumers and climate](https://www.socialeurope.eu/veggie-burger-ban-bad-for-consumers-and-climate): The meat industry wants terms such as ‘veggie burger’ banned. This is less about confusion, more about competition.
- [China takes the climate stage](https://www.socialeurope.eu/china-takes-the-climate-stage): Adam Tooze assesses the significance of China’s goal-setting for climate neutrality.
- [Evaluating democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/evaluating-democracy-the-rule-of-law-and-fundamental-rights-in-the-eu): The defence of universal norms needs to be broadened beyond Hungary and Poland and beyond the rule of law.
- [Are there any persuadable voters left in the US?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/are-there-any-persuadable-voters-left-in-the-us): ‘White working-class men’ are seen as the hard core of Trump’s support, yet a big group of working-class voters—black, brown and white—are persuadable.
- [The public’s business](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-publics-business): ‘Stakeholder capitalism’ has been promoted to balance the market and society but ultimately the only solution is to make firms more democratic.
- [The ‘circular economy’—neither safe nor sustainable](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-circular-economy-neither-safe-nor-sustainable): The circular economy holds out the hope of living within the planet’s resources. Turning aspiration into action is another matter.
- [Reviving transatlantic relations after Trump](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reviving-transatlantic-relations-after-trump): If Joe Biden were to win the White House, transatlantic relations could return to default or be transformed—with much depending on how Europe reacted.
- [Golden Dawn verdict—no sunset for the far right](https://www.socialeurope.eu/golden-dawn-verdict-no-sunset-for-the-far-right): Paul Mason argues that with authoritarian conservatives in the White House and the Kremlin it’s no surprise the far right is thriving in Europe.
- [EU labour markets in the pandemic: unemployment only part of the story](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-labour-markets-in-the-pandemic-unemployment-only-part-of-the-story): The good news is that unemployment has only risen modestly so far; the bad news is that hours worked have plummeted.
- [Taking Europe’s pandemic pulse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/taking-europes-pandemic-pulse): A tentative growth in trust shows Covid-19 has not yet torn the social fabric of Europe.
- [Collective-bargaining rights for platform workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-rights-for-platform-workers): The pioneering Danish collective agreement on platform-based domestic workers has been vitiated by a misguided ruling by its competition authority.
- [Mind the gap](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mind-the-gap): The digitalisation of work, despite its potential, risks becoming an impersonal means by which employers tilt the balance of power.
- [Neglected, sacrificed: older persons during the Covid-19 pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/neglected-sacrificed-older-persons-during-the-covid-19-pandemic): Older persons have suffered a terrible toll from the coronavirus—now countries must invest in long-term care.
- [Industry 4.0: the transformation of work?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industry-4-0-the-transformation-of-work): ‘Industry 4.0’ may be neither so extensive nor advanced as those in whom it arouses hopes and fears.
- [Avoiding a climate lockdown](https://www.socialeurope.eu/avoiding-a-climate-lockdown): The world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilisation will require dramatic interventions.
- [The EU must overhaul its farming policy to save the Green Deal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-must-overhaul-its-farming-policy-to-save-the-green-deal): European decision-makers are entering the final sprint of reform of the CAP. Their choices will make or break the European Green Deal.
- [No Realpolitik please: Europe must support the Belarusian people](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-realpolitik-please-europe-must-support-the-belarusian-people): Proactive engagement to help overcome the stalemate and firm signalling that any autocratic crackdown will trigger strong and effective measures are needed.
- [The ‘bazooka’: Modern Monetary Theory in action](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-bazooka-modern-monetary-theory-in-action): Peter Bofinger argues that large-scale injections of money to bring economies out of the coronavirus coma have vindicated Modern Monetary Theory.
- [The Covid-19 wake-up call to buttress social investment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-covid-19-wake-up-call-to-buttress-social-investment): The temptation to cut welfare expenditures to reduce deficits inflated by the pandemic must be resisted.
- [Making work fit for workers after Covid-19](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-work-fit-for-workers-after-covid-19): The welfare state sought to protect workers from labour-market risks. After Covid-19, reduced working time and greater autonomy must be on the agenda.
- [Corona versus culture](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corona-versus-culture): The pandemic closed theatres, concerts and exhibitions, imperilling many freelances. How will the creative industry re-emerge?
- [Assar Lindbeck: an appreciation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/assar-lindbeck-an-appreciation): The Swedish economist’s life of rich activity straddled theory and policy—and painting.
- [Social democracy in one corner of the world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democracy-in-one-corner-of-the-world): Branko Milanovic argues that ‘stop the world, we want to get off’ is no basis for a revival of progressive politics.
- [Enclosing the market](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enclosing-the-market): Despite increasing criticism of Big Tech, the business models of leading digital companies are still widely admired. That’s a problem.
- [Trade unions need new strategies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-need-new-strategies): With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed.
- [The European minimum wage will come—but how?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-minimum-wage-will-come-but-how): The principle of a European minimum wage is established. How it should be set is not.
- [Renovating Europe: a path to green recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/renovating-europe-a-path-to-green-recovery): A green recovery from the pandemic would heal its social scars by quickly creating jobs and fostering inclusion.
- [The politics of currencies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-politics-of-currencies): Adam Tooze argues that worrying about the euro exchange rate and a non-existent inflation enemy in Europe must give way to fiscal and monetary demand boosts.
- [Estonia top of the (digital) class](https://www.socialeurope.eu/estonia-top-of-the-digital-class): After the summer holidays, schools across Europe have been fretting about if and when they will have to switch back to digital distance learning—but not in Estonia.
- [Including the precariat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/including-the-precariat): The coronavirus crisis has highlighted how the welfare state of the future must include the growing mass of precarious labour, especially among youth.
- [Hazardous! Occupational safety and health in the care economy during the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hazardous-occupational-safety-and-health-in-the-care-economy-during-the-pandemic): Protecting the health and safety of all workers in the care economy is essential, but for this to become a reality major changes are needed.
- [Shifting the burden: can Covid-19 do it for women’s unpaid work?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shifting-the-burden-can-covid-19-do-it-for-womens-unpaid-work): Lockdown conditions have put in question the disproportionate burden of unpaid work placed on women, evidence from Turkey shows.
- [The EU needs a new story on race and inclusion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-needs-a-new-story-on-race-and-inclusion): If the sensitising impact of ‘Black Lives Matter’ is not to ebb, a new European narrative and concrete actions are needed.
- [Anticipating the Covid-19 restructuring tsunami](https://www.socialeurope.eu/anticipating-the-covid-19-restructuring-tsunami): There’s time to avoid the carnage of employer-led restructuring following the pandemic—but only if workers and unions set the agenda.
- [Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workers-rights-negotiating-and-co-governing-digital-systems-at-work): Algorithmic systems are a new front line for unions as well as a challenge to workers’ rights to autonomy.
- [Workers in critical occupations face triple disadvantage](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workers-in-critical-occupations-face-triple-disadvantage): At the height of the pandemic workers in critical occupations enjoyed nightly public applause. Now they need longer-term, concrete appreciation.
- [Building an electoral coalition: social-democratic parties in western Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-an-electoral-coalition-social-democratic-parties-in-western-europe): It is sometimes suggested social-democratic parties are torn between ‘communitarian’ workers and ‘cosmopolitan’ professionals—but it’s not so simple.
- [US economy mired in viral stagnation loop](https://www.socialeurope.eu/us-economy-mired-in-viral-stagnation-loop): The travails of the US economy come amid a politics never so poisonous since the civil war.
- [Where did Trumpism come from?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-did-trumpism-come-from): A new book turns away from the ‘demand side’ focus of much populism analysis to the ‘supply’ of a plutocratic, ever-more right-wing Republican party.
- [How digitalisation must be harnessed to save jobs](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-digitalisation-must-be-harnessed-to-save-jobs): A framework agreement between the social partners should ensure job security and worker involvement are prioritised across the European Union.
- [Spain’s fight for a just recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spains-fight-for-a-just-recovery): The ERTE job-protection scheme to combat the economic effects of the pandemic has left Spain well-prepared to face its aftermath.
- [The supermarket of citizenship and European democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-supermarket-of-citizenship-and-european-democracy): European citizenship must be invested with more political significance—and never treated as a commodity for sale.
- [Public debt monetisation and the credibility of the ECB](https://www.socialeurope.eu/public-debt-monetisation-and-the-credibility-of-the-ecb): What stops public debt being monetised to avoid the pain of prolonged austerity after the pandemic? An obsolete economic theory of ‘credibility’.
- [The politics of identity and inclusion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-politics-of-identity-and-inclusion): Karin Pettersson argues that struggles around race and gender are fundamentally about inclusion on an equal footing in the political community.
- [Black lives matter in Europe too](https://www.socialeurope.eu/black-lives-matter-in-europe-too): No one should be smug about racism in Europe. Here too there is a toxic interaction between ethnicity, equality and the environment.
- [The debt predators](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-debt-predators): The financial system has turned credit intermediation into a debt mint.
- [An economic, as well as a monetary, union?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-economic-as-well-as-a-monetary-union): The mammoth European Council meeting agreed a diminished recovery package—yet one with still huge ramifications.
- [Poles apart—the presidential election in Poland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/poles-apart-the-presidential-election-in-poland): The presidential election in Poland was an intolerant affair—and the argument isn’t over yet.
- [It’s the political economy, stupid!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/its-the-political-economy-stupid): The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to shake up the social formation.
- [Minimum wage: a success story with scope for improvement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/minimum-wage-a-success-story-with-scope-for-improvement): Peter Bofinger argues that regionally-differentiated minimum wages should be considered for the post-coronavirus period.
- [One virus, diverse impacts: the pandemic and women in central and eastern Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/one-virus-diverse-impacts-the-pandemic-and-women-in-central-and-eastern-europe): Against the backdrop of its specific histories, the impact of the pandemic on women particularly in the Balkans also demands specific attention.
- [Pushing Europe’s economic levers for a greener world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pushing-europes-economic-levers-for-a-greener-world): The EU is reconsidering its approach to deforestation and palm oil. This could be a good thing.
- [A ‘Hamiltonian moment’ for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-hamiltonian-moment-for-europe): Invoking Alexander Hamilton in the context of the sensitisation achieved by Black Lives Matter could not be more inappropriate.
- [The woman Roosevelt relied on to put America back to work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-woman-roosevelt-relied-on-to-put-america-back-to-work): Roosevelt is invoked more than ever amid talk of a ‘new deal’ for today’s crisis. Rather fewer, however, recall the woman at the heart of his programme.
- [How women can power the green transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-women-can-power-the-green-transition): The shift to sustainable energy gives societies a chance to tackle systemic gender discrimination.
- [Bidding for political immortality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/bidding-for-political-immortality): Branko Milanovic contends that historic decisions by authoritarian leaders today will leave a legacy nigh impossible to reverse in the future.
- [AI: those are citizens marching, not robots](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ai-those-are-citizens-marching-not-robots): Artificial intelligence, usually thought of as substituting human endeavour, should be conceived as a way of enhancing it for all.
- [For a law of ‘algorithmic justice at work’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/for-a-law-of-algorithmic-justice-at-work): Workers must be protected from adverse decisions where responsibility is displaced to apparently anonymous algorithms.
- [Collective bargaining—a legal right unrecognised in Ireland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-a-legal-right-unrecognised-in-ireland): The EU recovery plan must link company bailouts to enforcement of collective-bargaining rights.
- [Time to tackle the tax dodgers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-tackle-the-tax-dodgers): With some bailed out companies continuing to pay dividends, the focus should shift to making big corporations contribute to the cost of recovery.
- [Priorities for the Covid-19 economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/priorities-for-the-covid-19-economy): The most urgent policy priorities have been obvious since the beginning, but they will require hard choices and a show of political will.
- [Carbon pricing and the exit from fossil fuels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/carbon-pricing-and-the-exit-from-fossil-fuels): Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.
- [Challenging patents key to make Covid-19 vaccine work for all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/challenging-patents-key-to-make-covid-19-vaccine-work-for-all): Finding a vaccine against the coronavirus is a biochemical challenge. Ensuring universal access to it, however, is a political choice.
- [The EU is muddling through another crisis—which may be good enough](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-is-muddling-through-another-crisis-which-may-be-good-enough): The divisions exposed by the coronavirus have reopened fundamental questions about the ultimate aims of the EU. But now is not the time to answer them.
- [Emerging stronger from the crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/emerging-stronger-from-the-crisis): Europe needs to do more at federal level if a recovery plan is to be successful.
- [Technological sovereignty—and a sepia-image Britain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/technological-sovereignty-and-a-sepia-image-britain): Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values.
- [The Main Street manifesto](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-main-street-manifesto): The historic protests which have swept America were long overdue, not just as a response to racism and police violence but also as a revolt against entrenched plutocracy.
- [Let this time be different!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/let-this-time-be-different): Europe needs a green industrial recovery strategy to exit the pandemic.
- [A new social contract](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-social-contract): The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model—a new social contract can help us build a new one.
- [Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms](https://www.socialeurope.eu/explaining-artificial-intelligence-in-human-centred-terms): Since AI involves interactions between machines and humans—rather than just the former replacing the latter—‘explainable AI’ is a new challenge.
- [Covid-19 fallout takes higher toll on women](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-fallout-takes-higher-toll-on-women): While women appear to be more resilient than men to Covid-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout.
- [Protests, the left and the power of democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/protests-the-left-and-the-power-of-democracy): Sheri Berman urges the American left not to squander the sea-change in public opinion of recent weeks by only preaching to the converted.
- [Pandemic deepens social and political cleavages](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pandemic-deepens-social-and-political-cleavages): The coronavirus crisis has inflamed cleavages in democratic societies which will be difficult to heal.
- [Social commons: the social protection we want](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-commons-the-social-protection-we-want): Universal basic income would offer a deadweight subsidy to low-paying employers. The route to security for all lies in the concept of ‘social commons’.
- [Fiscal regimes and equality among states](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fiscal-regimes-and-equality-among-states): Amid talk of a ‘Hamiltonian moment’, the Next Generation EU recovery fund recalls a later US Treasury secretary as a fiscal union emerges.
- [A basic-income floor should be part of a recovery programme](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-basic-income-floor-should-be-part-of-a-recovery-programme): With the UK’s social safety net full of holes, support has grown for a basic income to underpin a mean and means-tested benefits system.
- [Why recovery needs to have children at its centre](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-recovery-needs-to-have-children-at-its-centre): The pandemic and the lockdown have had serious effects on children’s wellbeing. The EU recovery plan must ensure their specific needs are addressed.
- [The Covid-19 crisis: inflationary or deflationary?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-covid-19-crisis-inflationary-or-deflationary): Peter Bofinger warns especially German inflation-phobes that deflation is a greater downside risk in the aftermath of the pandemic.
- [Sweden, the pandemic and precarious working conditions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sweden-the-pandemic-and-precarious-working-conditions): Most commentary on the Covid-19 death toll in Sweden has been on the absence of lockdown, yet privatisation and precarity in eldercare should really be in the spotlight.
- [Sweden must be ready to support an ambitious recovery fund](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sweden-must-be-ready-to-support-an-ambitious-recovery-fund): Rather than locate itself in the ‘frugal four’, Sweden should support a progressive recovery plan at the coming European Council.
- [Science and politics: a new alliance?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/science-and-politics-a-new-alliance): The pandemic has brought science and expertise to the fore in the public sphere, as an anchor of trust—and put the populists on the back foot.
- [American traumas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/american-traumas): Karin Pettersson explores the deep faultlines of unexpurgated racism tearing the United States apart.
- [Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/artificial-intelligence-healthcare-and-the-pandemic): The coronavirus crisis demands a regulatory framework for the application of AI to protect public health without jeopardising human rights.
- [A citizens’ conference on the future of Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-citizens-conference-on-the-future-of-europe): With agreement lacking on the future of Europe—even about the conference on that theme—it’s time to look to a European Citizens’ Assembly.
- [Relaunching Europe by transparency](https://www.socialeurope.eu/relaunching-europe-by-transparency): Myriad lobbyists in Brussels advocate for private interests, especially big corporations. European citizens need a less patchy framework for transparency.
- [A global economy in uncharted waters](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-global-economy-in-unchartered-waters): Governments must learn from the financial crisis if they are not to repeat the errors of the recovery from it.
- [There is no recovery without migration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/there-is-no-recovery-without-migration): The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the essential role of migration in a globalised economy. The recovery must not be jeopardised by self-harming xenophobia.
- [Lessons from the pandemic for the conservative welfare state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-conservative-welfare-state): The economic crisis induced by Covid-19 has revealed the breaking points of the conservative welfare state. It is time for a reorientation.
- [America’s unhappy middle](https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-unhappy-middle): Branko Milanovic unpacks the malaise of the US middle class and its implications for Democratic strategy towards the presidential election.
- [Time to expose the reality of ‘debt market discipline’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-expose-the-powerful-actors-behind-market-discipline): As another sovereign-debt crisis looms, Adam Tooze warns against repeating the mistake of delegating to anonymised ‘markets’ accountable political choices.
- [History repeating itself? The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on youth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/history-repeating-itself-the-impact-of-the-covid-19-crisis-on-youth): Young people are anxious about the effects of the crisis yet also more trusting in the European Union—an asset which should not be squandered.
- [Machine learning should increase human possibilities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/machine-learning-should-increase-human-possibilities): Sociologist Elena Esposito suggests shifting the focus of artificial intelligence to machines as communication partners. Interview by Florian Butollo.
- [Digital welfare states: boundaries and opportunities](https://www.socialeurope.eu/digital-welfare-states-boundaries-and-opportunities): A Dutch court case has set out a framework within which the emergent digital welfare state can respect the right to privacy.
- [A federal budget for European citizens](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-federal-budget-for-european-citzens): The proposal by the French president and the German chancellor for a €500 billion recovery fund refocuses attention on the EU budget—but that raises wider issues.
- [Europe’s leaders must stem falling trust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-leaders-must-stem-falling-trust): A mass online survey across the continent has found Europeans reeling from the coronavirus crisis—and losing trust in their leaders’ ability to manage it.
- [Brexit: deaths, more deaths… and no-deal calculations](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brexit-deaths-more-deaths-and-no-deal-calculations): In a nightmare-scenario ‘Brexit’ denouement, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos from which it hopes to profit after its Covid-19 shambles.
- [Health policy after the crisis: more of the same or a new path?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/health-policy-after-the-crisis-more-of-the-same-or-a-new-path): Years of pre-crisis adhesion to ‘new public management’ in health policy have seen public provision eroded. Now is an opportunity to change course.
- [The pandemic and the day after](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-pandemic-and-the-day-after): Emergence from the coronavirus crisis cannot be to ‘business as usual’ but must urgently open a transition to socio-environmental sustainability.
- [What when there’s a vaccine?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-when-theres-a-vaccine): Amid the accelerated scientific quest for a vaccine against the coronavirus, crucial ethical and social questions have not yet been addressed.
- [Robots won’t make us redundant](https://www.socialeurope.eu/robots-wont-make-us-redundant): Globalisation, digitalisation, artificial intelligence—it’s time to stop debating work in a fear-laden way.
- [If it comes with interest, it’s no recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/if-it-comes-with-interest-its-no-recovery): EU leaders must not behave like generals fighting the last war. If the Recovery Fund is to be adequate to the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, this time must be different.
- [An investment plan for European reconstruction](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-investment-plan-for-european-reconstruction): Europe must look beyond keeping companies on life support and staunching national debts to a continent-wide reconstruction driven by public investment.
- [Trade unions are key to a safe exit from the pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-are-key-to-a-safe-exit-from-the-pandemic): There can be no return to ‘business as usual’ after the crisis: the ‘new normal’ must entail a profound political and social transformation.
- [German court decision ends treaty pretences](https://www.socialeurope.eu/german-court-decision-ends-treaty-pretences): With ‘coronabonds’ stymied, an exit from the crisis had depended on ECB monetary operations—until the German constitutional court weighed in.
- [The ecological transition is the new mission for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ecological-transition-is-the-new-mission-for-europe): If once a peace project, the mission for Europe today is a safe ecological transition—the Green Deal the antidote to a malaise apparent long before the pandemic.
- [Does European solidarity extend to the western Balkans?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/does-european-solidarity-extend-to-the-western-balkans): The coronavirus crisis has not only highlighted the north-south faultline in the EU—it also put relations with western-Balkan aspirants under strain.
- [Basic income: Finland’s final verdict](https://www.socialeurope.eu/basic-income-positive-results-from-finland): The coronavirus crisis has renewed interest in the notion of a universal basic income. The full report of a two-year Finnish experiment has just appeared.
- [Overconsumption, globalised supply chains and the Covid-19 crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/overconsumption-globalised-supply-chains-and-the-covid-19-crisis): We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits.
- [Transnational social production networks—an answer to the coronavirus security crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/transnational-social-production-networks-an-answer-to-the-coronavirus-security-crisis): The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for transnational collaboration to produce socially useful goods—an idea aerospace workers in the UK hatched decades ago.
- [Covid-19 does not discriminate—nor should we](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-does-not-discriminate-nor-should-we): A paradigm shift in national and EU Roma strategies is more urgent than ever.
- [The Covid-19 crisis is exacerbating gender inequalities—but who cares?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-covid-19-crisis-is-exacerbating-gender-inequalities-but-who-cares): The gender dimension of the coronavirus crisis is obvious when seen through a lens of gender inequality. Which leaves it invisible to many.
- [Social trust and government responses to Covid-19](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-trust-and-government-responses-to-covid-19): How governments have addressed the pandemic has reflected different levels of social trust—which will have consequences for its aftermath.
- [The ‘frugal four’ should save the European project](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-frugal-four-should-save-the-european-project): Peter Bofinger argues that additional loans of inadequate amount do not add up to a rescue package which can save Europe from the coronavirus crisis.
- [Unions’ responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unions-responses-to-the-covid-19-crisis-in-europe): On International Workers’ Day, it is important to recall the crucial role played by unions in protecting the workforce, especially at times of crisis.
- [Four scenarios for Europe’s future after the crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/four-scenarios-for-europes-future-after-the-crisis): What kind of Europe will take shape after the coronavirus crisis? Four scenarios, widely varying in their social and ecological consequences, are possible.
- [The four worlds of the social-ecological state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-four-worlds-of-the-social-ecological-state): The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to update the European welfare state to a social-ecological state, able to socialise 21st-century ecological risks.
- [It’s a virus, and this isn’t a war](https://www.socialeurope.eu/its-a-virus-and-this-isnt-a-war): The coronavirus crisis is a social challenge, Karin Pettersson writes, which the formerly secure are now being reminded is hitting the poor hardest.
- [The nascent paradigm shift in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-nascent-paradigm-shift-in-the-eu): Emergency action to enhance healthcare and unemployment insurance might signal a paradigm shift for the union from market integration to providing public goods.
- [In-work poverty in times of pandemic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/in-work-poverty-in-times-of-pandemic): The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating in-work poverty in the EU—and a powerful raft of labour-market and welfare measures is needed for an adequate response.
- [Into a new era of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/into-a-new-era-of-work): Artificial intelligence will drastically transform the economy and the workplace. Which skills will be required and is training the all-encompassing solution?
- [Returning our food systems to business as usual would be a historic mistake](https://www.socialeurope.eu/returning-our-food-systems-to-business-as-usual-would-be-a-historic-mistake): Amid the coronavirus crisis, some are calling for a deferral of European ecological action. Yet unsustainable food systems are one source of new human diseases.
- [Out of the tragedy of coronavirus may come hope of a more just society](https://www.socialeurope.eu/out-of-the-tragedy-of-coronavirus-may-come-hope-of-a-more-just-society): The lessons of necessity and solidarity learned during the pandemic must inform a transition to a just society within ecological limits in its aftermath.
- [A Marshall plan for Europe—or a Draghi plan?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-marshall-plan-for-europe-or-a-draghi-plan): Decades of neoliberal inculcation have deprived the political class of the historical memory needed to derive the new Marshall plan today’s crisis demands.
- [The German debt blindspot in the European crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-german-debt-blindspot-in-the-european-crisis): The postwar German debt experience should inform a spirit of co-operation and goodwill today.
- [How Law and Justice (mis)used the pandemic to dismantle social dialogue in Poland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-law-and-justice-misused-the-pandemic-to-dismantle-social-dialogue-in-poland): With the independence of Poland’s judiciary already compromised, the autonomy of social partnership has become the latest target of the ruling populists.
- [The coronavirus crisis and a euro area contained—in a prisoner’s dilemma](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-coronavirus-crisis-and-a-euro-area-contained-in-a-prisoners-dilemma): As the eurozone faces into a deep recession, a transparent prisoner’s dilemma is preventing it from stopping the slide.
- [China’s political system and the coronavirus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/chinas-political-system-and-the-coronavirus): Branko Milanovic explores how the pandemic has highlighted China’s international responsibility and how such global ‘externalities’ are to be rendered accountable.
- [Solidaristic, social and sensible—reflections on progressivism for today and when tomorrow comes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/solidaristic-social-and-sensible-reflections-on-progressivism-for-today-and-when-tomorrow-comes): The future of social democracy has been a perennial debate but the coronavirus crisis has provided a shock: progressive politics will not be the same again.
- [The new role of monetary policy in the Covid-19 crisis and its climate application](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-role-of-monetary-policy-in-the-covid-19-crisis-and-its-climate-application): What the US central bank has been doing to address the coronavirus crisis is precisely what is needed to tackle climate change.
- [Artificial intelligence: made by men for men?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/artificial-intelligence-made-by-men-for-men): AI might seem neutral and technical but it poses a differential challenge to female jobs and can be imbued with insidious gender biases.
- [EU-wide inequality is back to pre-crisis levels](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-wide-inequality-is-back-to-pre-crisis-levels): After almost a decade, EU-wide inequality finally regained its previous low of 2009 due to relatively strong growth in the poorer member states between the Baltic and the Balkans.
- [Building resistance: a rights-based, holistic approach against Covid-19](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-resistance-a-rights-based-holistic-approach-against-covid-19): Human rights, including social and economic rights, may seem to some a luxury during a crisis. But that is when they are needed most.
- [Resilience in the corona crisis—strongest where workers enjoy collective power](https://www.socialeurope.eu/resilience-in-the-corona-crisis-strongest-where-workers-enjoy-collective-power): It may not have been thought of as an antidote to the coronavirus but collective bargaining is protecting workers’ health and security against its ravages.
- [‘Corona bonds’ and Europe’s north-south divide](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corona-bonds-and-europes-north-south-divide): The Eurogroup’s decision to reject corona bonds will leave destabilising political scars.
- [Not (yet) up to the task: how eurozone members are gambling away post-Covid economic recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/not-yet-up-to-the-task-how-eurozone-members-are-gambling-away-post-covid-economic-recovery): The Eurogroup needed a highest-common-factor agreement to match the coronavirus crisis but intergovernmentalism left it with the lowest common denominator.
- [EUR-bonds in the corona crisis and beyond](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eur-bonds-in-the-corona-crisis-and-beyond): Eurobonds are needed to anchor macroeconomic stability and offer a safe path out of the coronavirus storm.
- [Eurobonds: why they are needed, how they would work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eurobonds-why-they-are-needed-how-they-would-work): By Einstein’s purported definition, madness would be repeating the errors of the eurozone crisis and expecting a different outcome—eurobonds would break with that.
- [Capitalism’s triple crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capitalisms-triple-crisis): After the 2008 financial crisis, we learned the hard way what happens when governments flood the economy with unconditional liquidity, rather than laying the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.
- [Designing AI tools to benefit workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/designing-ai-tools-to-benefit-workers): Continuing our series on artificial intelligence, AI can augment human work—if workers’ representatives have a voice in implementing it.
- [Capitalism’s mirror stage: artificial intelligence and the quantified worker](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capitalisms-mirror-stage-artificial-intelligence-and-the-quantified-worker): As AI enters the workplace, we need to reflect upon the criteria by which human work is evaluated and human subjectivity depicted.
- [Combating Covid-19 and climate change—one fight](https://www.socialeurope.eu/combating-covid-19-and-climate-change-one-fight): The same socially oriented approach must be taken to defeat the coronavirus and, over the longer run, stop climate catastrophe.
- [How his ‘Brexit’ project explains Johnson’s dithering on Covid-19](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-his-brexit-project-explains-johnsons-dithering-on-covid-19): Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s idiosyncratic initial response to the coronavirus stemmed from his particularistic empire nostalgia.
- [The future of Europe is being decided now](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-europe-is-being-decided-now): Given the ravages of the coronavirus crisis, the future of Europe cannot be one of permanent division between its northern and southern states.
- [Save European citizens, and save the union](https://www.socialeurope.eu/save-european-citizens-and-save-the-union): In the face of the momentous internal and external threats facing European citizens, a merely intergovernmental European Union will fail to match them.
- [What Europe can learn from living-wage campaigns](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-europe-can-learn-from-living-wage-campaigns): The UK’s Living Wage Campaign is a successful experiment in broad-based social advocacy.
- [The coronavirus and the ‘quarantining’ of Hungarian democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-coronavirus-and-the-quarantining-of-hungarian-democracy): Many aspects of normal life have been suspended in Hungary due to the coronavirus, including parliamentary democracy.
- [The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-work-in-the-post-covid-19-digital-era): 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’.
- [A Social-Green Deal, with just transition—the European answer to the coronavirus crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-social-green-deal-with-just-transition-the-european-answer-to-the-coronavirus-crisis): Concluding the Social Europe series on ‘just transition’, Maja Göpel zooms out to elaborate the shift in narrative entailed.
- [Democracy, authoritarianism and crises](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-authoritarianism-and-crises): The coronavirus crisis may be a natural disaster but, Sheri Berman writes, how governments are responding is a product of their politics.
- [Has the coronavirus brought back the nation-state?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/has-the-coronavirus-brought-back-the-nation-state): The coronavirus crisis has remade the case for public authority—but that can only work in a complex network of multi-level governance.
- [Social protection pays off](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-protection-pays-off): Governments must use the momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic to make rapid progress toward collectively financed, comprehensive social-protection systems.
- [Reforming Europe’s fiscal rules](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reforming-europes-fiscal-rules): Why do the Maastricht criteria compare budget deficits and public debt with GDP rather than budget revenues? That’s a good question.
- [The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-responds-to-the-coronavirus-deja-vu-all-over-again): The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.
- [Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of Modern Monetary Theory](https://www.socialeurope.eu/coronavirus-crisis-now-is-the-hour-of-modern-monetary-theory): Peter Bofinger argues MMT provides intellectual justification for a ‘whatever it takes’ fiscal response to potentially the biggest global postwar economic challenge
- [Welcome but inadequate: European measures to counter the corona crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/welcome-but-inadequate-european-measures-to-counter-the-corona-crisis): More monetary-policy easing is still a one-club approach—fiscal support is also needed at EU level.
- [Europe under quarantine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-under-quarantine): The coronavirus crisis has exposed the shared vulnerability of Europe’s interdependence. Time to turn that into a strength.
- [The Covid-19 debt deluge](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-covid-19-debt-deluge): The Covid-19 crisis may have set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in the Asian economies on the front lines.
- [Europe’s refugee policy: walking headlong into disaster](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-refugee-policy-walking-headlong-into-disaster): 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.
- [Covid-19 is an opportunity for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/covid-19-is-an-opportunity-for-europe): The EU has always advanced on the back of crises. The Covid-19 outbreak represents a chance to pools resources towards a co-ordinated fiscal policy.
- [The corona crisis will define our era](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-corona-crisis-will-define-our-era): Karin Pettersson writes that the pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system.
- [Preventing the next virus outbreak](https://www.socialeurope.eu/preventing-the-next-virus-outbreak): The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.
- [Plagued by Trumpism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/plagued-by-trumpism): 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.
- [Whose is the European Green Deal?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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?
- [Advancing gender equality requires a new fiscal pact](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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 great equaliser](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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](https://www.socialeurope.eu/making-globalisation-fair): Enterprises must address—and government more actively demand of them—their observance of human rights.
- [‘A worker is a worker’: the trade unions organising migrants across Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [The party of discontent](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-party-of-discontent): The US Republican Party has made an accommodation to Donald Trump its leaders may come to regret.
- [Strong children, strong democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/strong-children-strong-democracy): Educational research models children as autonomous actors. Education policy, notably in Germany, still however aims to guide innate capacities into adulthood.
- [It’s now or never for national data strategies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/its-now-or-never-for-national-data-strategies): As a critical resource that is unlike anything that came before it, big data demands a robust policy response.
- [Hard truths about the eurozone crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/hard-truths-about-the-eurozone-crisis): There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.
- [A European Union climate agenda for COP26](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-union-climate-agenda-for-cop26): The EU should bring a new climate agenda to Glasgow—including a roadmap for emerging nations to embrace a future beyond fossil fuels.
- [Brexit and the risks of economic nationalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brexit-and-the-risks-of-economic-nationalism): In talking about their future relationship with the UK, EU leaders may want to mind their language.
- [Including racism in the discussion of wellbeing at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/including-racism-in-the-discussion-of-wellbeing-at-work): The sociologist David Williams has said racism makes us sick and this is also true at work. How can we create workplaces which promote wellbeing for all?
- [With the UK’s European door closed, it’s open season for xenophobia](https://www.socialeurope.eu/with-the-uks-european-door-closed-its-open-season-for-xenophobia): Paul Mason explains how, even after the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration.
- [Why EU action on minimum wages is so controversial—yet so necessary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-eu-action-on-minimum-wages-is-so-controversial-yet-so-necessary): The opening of debate on minimum wages across the EU has precipitated a Nordic union reaction against incursions on collective bargaining.
- [New firms for a new era](https://www.socialeurope.eu/new-firms-for-a-new-era): Societies should not allow firms’ owners and their agents to drive the discussion about reforming corporate governance.
- [Uber, employment and the gig economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/uber-employment-and-the-gig-economy): Whatever the company might wish to call it, Uber’s relationship with its workers is one of employment.
- [‘Fridays for Keynesianism’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/fridays-for-keynesianism): Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies and Peter Bofinger argues the 2008 crisis must bring the demise of neoclassical economics—which still doesn’t.
- [Freeports: Johnson should look elsewhere for growth enhancements](https://www.socialeurope.eu/freeports-johnson-should-look-elsewhere-for-growth-enhancements): Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts.
- [A just transition must help those struggling to heat their homes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-just-transition-must-help-those-struggling-to-heat-their-homes): In the latest contribution to our series on ‘just transition’, Monique Goyens argues that it must address the people finding it hard to pay their energy bills.
- [Limited liability is causing unlimited harm](https://www.socialeurope.eu/limited-liability-is-causing-unlimited-harm): The purpose of limited-liability protection was to encourage investment in corporations, yet it has evolved into a source of systemic market failure.
- [What’s at stake in the Democratic primaries](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whats-at-stake-in-the-democratic-primaries): Sheri Berman sets out the reasoning of the contending camps behind the US Democratic presidential contenders—and their European resonances.
- [What will it take for women to be equal at work in the UK?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-will-it-take-for-women-to-be-equal-at-work-in-the-uk): Employers and policy-makers can drive real progress in improving women’s working lives.
- [Europe needs a strong macroeconomic policy core—but not a Six (or Two) Pack](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs-a-strong-macroeconomic-policy-core-but-not-a-six-or-two-pack): In light of the eurozone and, now, climate crises, EU macroeconomic policy co-ordination needs a reboot.
- [Just transition: the pensions analogy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/just-transition-the-pensions-analogy): A ‘just transition’ must replace fear of, and resistance to, brown job losses with consensus behind social investment. Pension reform provides parallels and pointers.
- [The politics of a just transition: avoiding fallacious arguments](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-politics-of-a-just-transition-avoiding-fallacious-arguments): John Weeks argues in our ‘just transition’ series that its success is linked to a political message of hope.
- [Isn’t a wealth tax common sense?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/isnt-a-wealth-tax-common-sense): The wealth tax proposals advanced by Democratic US presidential primary contenders have drawn vehement criticism from many who should be supporting them.
- [Access to social assistance and rights for homeless people](https://www.socialeurope.eu/access-to-social-assistance-and-rights-for-homeless-people): Homeless people tend to have individualised, complex needs. But their first requirement is simple—a home.
- [The myth of job polarisation may fuel populism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-myth-of-job-polarisation-may-fuel-populism): There is only one problem with the theory that the labour market is becoming polarised between the low- and high-skilled. It’s wrong.
- [Fears and hopes around future minimum wages](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Moving beyond coal: policy lessons from across Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/moving-beyond-coal-policy-lessons-from-across-europe): A new report has identified good and bad practices which can inform national efforts at ‘just transition’.
- [Instilling due diligence in corporate behaviour](https://www.socialeurope.eu/instilling-due-diligence-in-corporate-behaviour): Europe must act on its global responsibility to protect human and workers’ rights.
- [Russia’s path toward a better political capitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/russias-path-toward-a-better-political-capitalism): Branko Milanovic explains the possible thinking behind Vladimir Putin’s recent clouded constitutional announcements.
- [World Economic Forum: towards sustainability with neoliberal recipes?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/world-economic-forum-towards-sustainability-with-neoliberal-recipes): The World Economic Forum has recognised intellectually that Scandinavian social models offer an alternative to rising inequality. It just can’t accept this ideologically.
- [Class struggle à la droite](https://www.socialeurope.eu/class-struggle-a-la-droite): Populism is boosted by economic crises, but its roots are cultural.
- [Telling a different story: the media and ‘just transition’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/telling-a-different-story-the-media-and-just-transition): Continuing our series on ‘just transition’, Natalie Bennett argues that the media have an ethical responsibility to foster public understanding.
- [Beyond ‘green growth’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-green-growth): A serious discussion of ‘just transition’ must break with a social model based on individual utility maximisation—before it breaks the biosphere.
- [Just transition: replacing fear with hope](https://www.socialeurope.eu/just-transition-replacing-fear-with-hope): Just transition works and there are already many lessons learned. The most important is that workers must see a positive pathway ahead.
- [A just transition with climate and social ambition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-just-transition-with-climate-and-social-ambition): The deputy prime minister of Spain responsible for the ecological transition describes the experience there of making ‘just transition’ a reality.
- [The fierce urgency of COP26](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-fierce-urgency-of-cop26): Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership.
- [Wind-power slump blows Germany off course on climate targets](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wind-power-slump-blows-germany-off-course-on-climate-targets): Germany has forged a reputation with its Energiewende flip over to renewables. But as construction of wind turbines stagnates, can it hit its ambitious climate targets?
- [The Green Deal and a disordered world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-green-deal-and-a-disordered-world): 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.
- [Building a progressive alliance in Britain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/building-a-progressive-alliance-in-britain): Labour must abandon faith in one more heave for Westminster victory and embrace a progressive alliance, including for electoral reform.
- [The European Green Deal: will the ends, will the means?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-green-deal-will-the-ends-will-the-means): The European Green Deal needs sustained political commitment, especially on ‘just transition’, if it is to realise its ambition.
- [Leaving Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/leaving-europe): Paul Mason turns in his Social Europe column from postcapitalism to the theme of post-Brexit Britain.
- [What to do about economic inequality?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-to-do-about-economic-inequality): Economic inequality has burgeoned as income from capital has risen faster than growth. Time to change the owners of capital.
- [Collective bargaining and social dialogue: part of the solution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-and-social-dialogue-part-of-the-solution): There is no real alternative to social dialogue, collective agreements and the voice of workers—even the OECD agrees.
- [Material concerns about posting of workers](https://www.socialeurope.eu/material-concerns-about-posting-of-workers): Legal arguments over the EU posting of workers directive raise the issue of which is to prevail: workers’ rights or unregulated markets?
- [Germany’s Zeitenwende of 1989-90 and its contemporary European reverberations](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-zeitenwende-of-1989-90-and-its-contemporary-european-reverberations): 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.
- [Another year of living dangerously](https://www.socialeurope.eu/another-year-of-living-dangerously): Twenty twenty will be another year of living dangerously if short-term policies continue to be pursued at the expense of long-term vision.
- [Time is ripe for a new ECB strategy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Europe and the tragedy of Israel/Palestine](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-and-the-tragedy-of-israel-palestine): Amid the intractable struggle in Israel/Palestine for the moral high ground of legitimate victimhood, Europe has a historic responsibility.
- [The right macroeconomic policies for a Europe saving too much](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Financial capitalism is here to stay, but in what form?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/financial-capitalism-is-here-to-stay-but-in-what-form): It is wrong to treat financial capitalism as the dysfunctional child of neoliberalism and so misdirect a progressive policy focus.
- [The ranks of the working poor](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-ranks-of-the-working-poor): Despite rising employment in many western economies, poverty is not declining. What’s wrong with labour-market policies?
- [Corbyn’s electoral defeat: myths, causes and lessons](https://www.socialeurope.eu/corbyns-electoral-defeat-myths-causes-and-lessons): Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was ‘Brexit’, partly Corbyn.
- [The green agenda—a social and geopolitical tool](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-green-agenda-a-social-and-geopolitical-tool): The European green agenda is key to saving the planet—but it could also save an enlightenment-based multilateral order from nationalist irrationalism.
- [Sustainability is social, environmental and economic](https://www.socialeurope.eu/sustainability-is-social-environmental-and-economic): The principle of ‘sustainability first’ should become the golden thread unifying all EU actions.
- [A fair Brexit](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-fair-brexit): For the free-market Tory right, Brexit is a means towards a beggar-my-neighbour buccaneering adventure—not ‘future relations’ to which the EU27 can agree.
- [The neoliberal far right in Poland](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-neoliberal-far-right-in-poland): Confederation, the new force on the far right in Poland which broke through in the parliamentary elections, is the party of (male) privilege, not precarity.
- [Can sustainable finance really help solve the climate crisis?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-sustainable-finance-really-help-solve-the-climate-crisis): It is wrong to believe the financial sector will contribute to ecological transformation. Economic and environmental policies remain key.
- [Interregnum or transformation?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/interregnum-or-transformation): Sheri Berman warns that, however self-evident the crisis of this neoliberal phase of capitalism may appear, it will not automatically collapse.
- [Why should just transition be an integral part of the European Green Deal?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [A Just Transition Fund: one step on a long march](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-just-transition-fund-one-step-on-a-long-march): Continuing our series on a ‘just transition’, Ludovic Voet stresses that allocating European funding is no substitute for a strategy to achieve it.
- [Reimagining a just transition](https://www.socialeurope.eu/reimagining-a-just-transition): Éloi Laurent opens a Social Europe series on the ‘just transition’ by framing it in the context of the social-ecological state.
- [Europe’s ‘soft-core’ future of differentiated integration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-soft-core-future-of-differentiated-integration): The best model for the EU is one of differentiated integration—but with a soft rather than a hard core of member states.
- [Orwell in Brussels and the future of social dialogue](https://www.socialeurope.eu/orwell-in-brussels-and-the-future-of-social-dialogue): The concept of social dialogue has become empty rhetoric, divorced from reality.
- [The end of neoliberalism and the rebirth of history](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-end-of-neoliberalism-and-the-rebirth-of-history): For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries promised neoliberal policies would lead to faster growth and the benefits would trickle down so that everyone would be better off.
- [Calling time on violence against women in the workplace](https://www.socialeurope.eu/calling-time-on-violence-against-women-in-the-workplace): On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, over 50 female union leaders urge stronger action by the incoming European Commission.
- [Five lessons for journalism in the age of rage](https://www.socialeurope.eu/five-lessons-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-rage): For Karin Pettersson, journalism has never been more challenging—and never more important.
- [Germany can reduce its external surplus](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germany-can-reduce-its-external-surplus): For years, Germany’s ballooning current-account surplus has rankled the rest of the world. It is a result of policies fully within the government’s power to change.
- [Work-life balance: from legal texts to real progress for working people](https://www.socialeurope.eu/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.
- [Resisting the seductions of populism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/resisting-the-seductions-of-populism): References to ‘the people’ are misleading. Populism is no democratic corrective.
- [Antifragile states](https://www.socialeurope.eu/antifragile-states): Branko Milanovic explains how globalisation has allowed small states to become major players and big cities to outgrow their nation-states.
- [Time to ensure climate policy serves the public, not lobbyists](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-ensure-climate-policy-serves-the-public-not-lobbyists): The fossil-fuel industry has been revealed to have invested vast resources in lobbying EU institutions.
- [Britain’s post-Brexit choices](https://www.socialeurope.eu/britains-post-brexit-choices): Assuming the UK does eventually leave the EU, its next government will need to negotiate new relationships with the rest of the world.
- [The UK election should be about ideas, not polls](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-uk-election-should-be-about-ideas-not-polls): With the UK facing one of the most important elections in decades, the focus should be on the clear programmatic differences between the main parties, rather than weekly polling outcomes.
- [The German impasse](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-german-impasse): Adam Tooze dissects how the macroeconomic policy discourse is disabling necessary German, and European, steps forward.
- [Europe: tear down those walls!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europe-tear-down-those-walls): It may be three decades since the Berlin wall came down but too many others have recently proliferated.
- [Between 1945 and 1989: the rise of ‘illiberal democracy’ in post-Communist Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/between-1945-and-1989-the-rise-of-illiberal-democracy-in-post-communist-europe): The strength of ‘illiberal democracy’ three decades after the fall of the Berlin wall can only be understood by reference to the prior cold-war trajectories of east and west.
- [After 1989: the battle for democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-1989-the-battle-for-democracy): The differing paths of the states which emerged after the fall of the wall show how liberty and the rule of law go hand in hand.
- [Unpacking supreme courts to restore checks and balances](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unpacking-supreme-courts-to-restore-checks-and-balances): Democracy is threatened by politicisation of constitutional courts. Unorthodox tactics are required to restore their role.
- [International tax emergency: a critical time for developing nations to speak up!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/international-tax-emergency-a-critical-time-for-developing-nations-to-speak-up): An OECD proposal to reduce transnational tax evasion contains flaws which developing countries must challenge before it is set in stone.
- [A new version of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ for the western Balkans](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-version-of-liberty-equality-fraternity-for-the-western-balkans): The decision of the European Council, at French behest, not to begin accession negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania will have region-wide reverberations.
- [Finally a eurozone budget, probably the wrong one](https://www.socialeurope.eu/finally-a-eurozone-budget-probably-the-wrong-one): A eurozone budget is an idea whose time, at last, may have come. But what is on the table contains familiar flaws.
- [Europe’s Green Deal is turning red](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-green-deal-is-turning-red): The European Green Deal does not just aim at combating the climate crisis. It’s also an opportunity for social change.
- [Budapest’s new mayor and the redemocratisation of Hungary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/budapests-new-mayor-and-the-redemocratisation-of-hungary): Local elections in Hungary have placed a question-mark over the durability of the ‘illiberal democracy’ of Viktor Orbán.
- [The big Green New Deal and its little red social question](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-big-green-new-deal-and-its-little-red-social-question): Why does environmental promise always fall short in practice? A new answer to the social question can bridge the gap.
- [Drinking the blood of Ukraine: east-west competition for a country in crisis](https://www.socialeurope.eu/drinking-the-blood-of-ukraine-east-west-competition-for-a-country-in-crisis): The bizarre recent phone conversation between the president of the US and his counterpart in Ukraine returned to the public mind a neglected country with a frozen conflict.
- [Central-bank digital currencies: proceed with caution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/central-bank-digital-currencies-proceed-with-caution): Peter Bofinger argues that introducing central-bank digital currencies would need to be subject to very careful consideration.
- [Collective bargaining must be rebuilt in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/collective-bargaining-must-be-rebuilt-in-europe): Revivified collective bargaining would benefit workers but also society as a whole—and political support is needed.
- [UN treaty on business and human rights vital for economic and social justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/un-treaty-on-business-and-human-rights-vital-for-economic-and-social-justice): How can transnational corporations be held to account in a world of nation states? A binding UN treaty would be an important step.
- [‘One In, One Out’ is a danger to workers’ health and safety](https://www.socialeurope.eu/one-in-one-out-is-a-danger-to-workers-health-and-safety): The new European Commission’s ‘One In, One Out’ approach to ‘burdensome’ legislation would stymie progress towards safer, healthier workplaces.
- [Elections in Switzerland: left-green gains and challenges](https://www.socialeurope.eu/elections-in-switzerland-left-green-gains-and-challenges): The parliamentary elections in Switzerland deprived the right of its majority. Can the surging greens and the social democrats take advantage?
- [The Manchester revolution](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-manchester-revolution): Paul Mason reimagines the Manchester of his birth in a postcapitalist age—and raises the challenge of getting there.
- [Our shrinking economic toolkits](https://www.socialeurope.eu/our-shrinking-economic-toolkits): For four decades, mainstream economists and policymakers have been wedded to fixed dogmas. Their blind belief in fiscal discipline threatens the very stability of societies.
- [The Goulard case—a rap on the knuckles for Emmanuel Macron](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-goulard-case-a-rap-on-the-knuckles-for-emmanuel-macron): The rejection by the European Parliament of Slyvie Goulard as French commissioner showed that ‘it’s France’ is not a sufficient excuse for special treatment.
- [Can Europe help the Balkans keep its young emigrants?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/can-europe-help-the-balkans-keep-its-young-emigrants): High emigration rates are doing massive damage to the prospects of the western Balkans—would a stronger EU perspective reverse this outflow?
- [Western Balkans need accession-talks signal from EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/western-balkans-need-accession-talks-signal-from-eu): Access for the states concerned, most immediately for North Macedonia and Albania, would be many years off—but the symbolism is important.
- [Is it time to ban political advertising on Facebook?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/is-it-time-to-ban-political-advertising-on-facebook): Karin Pettersson argues that ‘free speech’ is not a licence for politicians relying on rage to lie, and for such lies to be amplified by ‘social media’.
- [Ireland’s recovery: from bust to buoyancy … to Brexit?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/irelands-recovery-from-bust-to-buoyancy-to-brexit): If procyclical domestic policies inflated Ireland’s economic bubble, procyclical austerity demanded by the troika which bailed it out makes Ireland’s recovery all the more remarkable.
- [The limits of the nationalist left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-limits-of-the-nationalist-left): The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.
- [Wellbeing: an economy that works for children?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/wellbeing-an-economy-that-works-for-children): A Child Guarantee can be a second launchpad for investing in children.
- [Time to act to leave no child behind](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-act-to-leave-no-child-behind): Children without or at risk of losing parental care represent a stain on Europe’s moral conscience.
- [Preventing digital feudalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/preventing-digital-feudalism): Reforming the digital economy so that it serves collective ends is the defining economic challenge of our time.
- [A Green New Deal beyond growth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-green-new-deal-beyond-growth): A genuine European Green New Deal must place social justice and ecological protection ahead of fiscal discipline and economic growth.
- [The parliamentary election in Poland—the future at stake](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-parliamentary-election-in-poland-the-future-at-stake): Whether the coming election in Poland will consolidate the monopoly of the national-conservative PiS or favour a more pluralist balance of power, it will have a significant impact on Polish political culture.
- [Portuguese elections: Socialists expected to return to power but without a majority](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portuguese-elections-socialists-expected-to-return-to-power-but-without-a-majority): The Portuguese governmental ‘contraption’ has turned out to be surprisingly enduring—so much so that it may face another term
- [Ireland’s route from boom to bubble to bust](https://www.socialeurope.eu/irelands-route-from-boom-to-bubble-to-bust): Ireland’s volatile economic path of recent decades has wider European policy implications. Part one: the ‘Celtic Tiger’ and its demise
- [Should we worry about income gaps within or between countries?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/should-we-worry-about-income-gaps-within-or-between-countries): The rise of populist nationalism throughout the west has been fuelled partly by a clash between the objectives of equity in rich countries and higher living standards in poor countries.
- [Grosse Koalition, small Klimapaket](https://www.socialeurope.eu/grosse-koalition-small-klimapaket): Much was expected of the new climate package negotiated by the grand-coalition government in Berlin. Less was delivered.
- [German rebalancing—out of exit options](https://www.socialeurope.eu/german-rebalancing-out-of-exit-options): The consensus against German fiscal rebalancing is cracking—because the export demand which allowed it long to be avoided is looking shaky.
- [Open letter to my German friends about the ECB policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/open-letter-to-my-german-friends-about-the-ecb-policy): Guillaume Duval argues that Germany can see the end of ECB quantitative easing—if only it stops imposing austerity on the eurozone.
- [Top of Lagarde’s ECB to-do list: stop QE and democratise monetary policy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/top-of-lagardes-ecb-to-do-list-stop-qe-and-democratise-monetary-policy): If Christine Lagarde is serious about greening the European Central Bank, she must not hide behind its mandate.
- [Spitzenkandidaten, transnational lists and more Brussels-bubble ideas](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spitzenkandidaten-transnational-lists-and-more-brussels-bubble-ideas): The Spitzenkandidaten system was meant to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the European Parliament. But that wasn’t why more citizens voted in May.
- [The scramble for Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-scramble-for-europe): The European Union needs to lead the world towards a secure, multipolar future. If not, it will fall victim to the law of the political jungle.
- [The downsides and dangers of economic determinism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-downsides-and-dangers-of-economic-determinism): Economic determinism has appealed, at various times, to some on the left and on the right. Either way it avoids facing the choices politics entails.
- [Better working conditions, more predictable work—the new EU directive](https://www.socialeurope.eu/better-working-conditions-more-predictable-work-the-new-eu-directive): The EU directive on irregular work is a positive step but it struggles with the contradiction of protecting workers from the labour-market risks transferred by capital.
- [Time to act for climate justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-to-act-for-climate-justice): A ‘peoples summit’ in New York ahead of the official UN climate summit brings environmental and human-rights campaigners together in pursuit of climate justice.
- [From Fridays for Future to a global climate-justice unionism?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-fridays-for-future-to-a-global-climate-justice-unionism): Since the social and ecological crises are so intertwined, a ‘climate-justice unionism’ is required to address them in a holistic way.
- [Ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit, listen to the science!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ahead-of-the-un-climate-action-summit-listen-to-the-science): Public pressure is ratcheting higher on the climate crisis. But can the United Nations summit galvanise change, despite international divisions?
- [Mario Draghi and the Germans](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mario-draghi-and-the-germans): Not only is German animus towards Mario Draghi misplaced, Peter Bofinger argues. His stewardship of the European Central Bank has been a boon for the largest eurozone economy.
- [Managing cultural diversity—liberal values at a premium](https://www.socialeurope.eu/managing-cultural-diversity-liberal-values-at-a-premium): If Vladimir Putin thinks liberalism is obsolete when it comes to managing cultural diversity, democratic western-European leaders should not be echoing him.
- [A European pivot from space to time](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-european-pivot-from-space-to-time): Kalypso Nicolaidis concludes our ‘Euro2025’ series with a look beyond the new EU term, on which it has focused, to the long-term future of the continent.
- [Could a progressive phoenix arise from the ashes of the UK’s political meltdown?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/could-a-progressive-phoenix-arise-from-the-ashes-of-the-uks-political-meltdown): The solidly bourgeois Financial Times fears Labour could come to power with a potentially postcapitalist programme, Paul Mason writes.
- [Shadow of recession deepens over the eurozone](https://www.socialeurope.eu/shadow-of-recession-deepens-over-the-eurozone): Some orthodox economists predicted fiscal austerity would build confidence and so foster recovery. Yet at the end of the lost eurozone decade recession looms once more.
- [The nationalisation of risk in the eurozone](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-nationalisation-of-risk-in-the-eurozone): As economic clouds darken once more, a eurozone without risk-sharing remains a eurozone at risk.
- [Social policy starts at home](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-policy-starts-at-home): By designing a policy package around the needs of contemporary families, political leaders can promote women’s rights, children’s development and employment.
- [Spain à l’avant-garde on social protection for platform work?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/spain-a-lavant-garde-on-social-protection-for-platform-work): Deliveroo ‘riders’ are workers and not self-employed, according to Spanish courts.
- [Inequality in Europe—wider than it looks](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inequality-in-europe-wider-than-it-looks): Most discussion of inequality in Europe is confined to individual member states. Aggregating incomes across the EU, however, presents a sobering picture.
- [Politics in the age of data](https://www.socialeurope.eu/politics-in-the-age-of-data): Karin Pettersson argues that progressive politics is floundering in the waves generated by Big Data—when it could be shaping the tide.
- [‘Prorogation’: Britain’s populist coup](https://www.socialeurope.eu/prorogation-britains-populist-coup): Proroguing Westminster is a transparent manoeuvre by Boris Johnson to set up a ‘people versus Parliament’ election, even with the UK on course to crash out of the EU.
- [Tackling precarity in the platform economy—and beyond](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-precarity-in-the-platform-economy-and-beyond): To focus on online platforms in isolation would miss the point that they are part of a wider phenomenon of spreading and intensifying precarity at work.
- [An inclusive Green New Deal: the EU must raise its ambition, confidence and determination](https://www.socialeurope.eu/an-inclusive-green-new-deal-the-eu-must-raise-its-ambition-confidence-and-determination): In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Kirsty Hughes argues that a Green New Deal can gel the domestic and neighbourhood policies of the union.
- [Weighted voting, revolution and the applause in a concert hall](https://www.socialeurope.eu/weighted-voting-revolution-and-the-applause-in-a-concert-hall): Branko Milanovic argues that, after all the struggles to universalise the franchise, one-person one-vote is not the summit of democracy at all.
- [Rescue, not renewal: social investment for future wellbeing](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rescue-not-renewal-social-investment-for-future-wellbeing): The welfare state in Europe must become a social-investment state if the broken European social contract is to be renewed.
- [Giving Europe political substance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/giving-europe-political-substance): In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Mary Kaldor argues that developing substantive democracy in Europe to tame neoliberal globalisation must be the Leitmotif for the coming European term.
- [A woman’s place is in the leadership of her union](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-womans-place-is-in-the-leadership-of-her-union): As the workforce is feminised and women come to predominate among union members, the next step is assuming leadership roles in the trade-union movement.
- [A new ‘mode of action’ for Europe—prioritising the polity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-mode-of-action-for-europe-prioritising-the-polity): In the latest contribution to our ‘Europe2025’ series, Sophie Pornschlegel argues the EU needs to rethink its mode of action, in addition to tackling the pressing policy challenges ahead.
- [Brexit and the left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/brexit-and-the-left): The Labour Party has squandered three years in addressing the challenge posed by the Brexit referendum.
- [What’s driving populism?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whats-driving-populism): If authoritarian populism is rooted in economics, then the appropriate remedy is a populism of another kind—targeting economic injustice and inclusion—but pluralist in its politics and not necessarily damaging to democracy.
- [The International Monetary Fund leadership is not a bargaining counter](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-international-monetary-fund-leadership-is-not-a-bargaining-counter): Europe must get beyond seeing the head of the IMF as part of the spoils from Bretton Woods.
- [The exploitation time bomb](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-exploitation-time-bomb): Worsening economic inequality in recent years is largely the result of policy choices that reflect the political influence and lobbying power of the rich.
- [The future of Europe: rebalancing ecology, economics and ethics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rebalancing-ecology-economics): Europe needs a new eco-social paradigm if it is to ward off the populist sirens and offer a positive vision for the continent.
- [The new Spanish minimum wage](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-spanish-minimum-wage): Raising wage floors is one way to reduce inequality and stimulate recovery in Europe. A big uplift in the Spanish minimum wage this year provides a test bed.
- [A defeat for the populist right isn’t always a win for the social-democratic left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populist-right-social-democratic): The populist right and the social-democratic left may contest for the support of the popular classes but, Sheri Berman argues, it’s not a simple zero-sum game.
- [Europeanisation from below: still time for another Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europeanisation-from-below): In the latest contribution to our ‘Europe2025’ series, Donatella della Porta argues that it has become increasingly difficult for social movements to envision another Europe from below.
- [Public discourse in the populist age—a trade-union perspective](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populist-age-union-perspective): Winning the battle against the populists means foregrounding and addressing social inequalities, not presuming political liberalism monopolises the alternative.
- [The challenge ahead: a safer and more dynamic Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/safer-and-more-dynamic-europe): In the latest in our ‘Europe2025’ series, Gustav Horn focuses on macroeconomic institutional reforms for financial stability and a programme of investment to engender vital public goods.
- [Libra: Facebook’s new currency fails the Hayek test](https://www.socialeurope.eu/libra-facebooks-new-currency): Libra means ‘balance’ in Latin. But Peter Bofinger argues that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency would be highly risky for holders and a giant enrichment programme for the company.
- [Turning the tide on violence and harassment at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/violence-and-harassment-at-work): The #MeToo movement raised global awareness about the experience of harassment at work—now we have a potentially far-reaching ILO convention to combat the phenomenon.
- [Creating social legitimacy in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-legitimacy-in-the-eu): The EU will only survive long-term if it builds its future agenda on broad public support through open dialogue and innovative consultation.
- [Social democrats and their allies—where now after the elections?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democrats-where-now): Close scrutiny of the European Parliament and recent national elections belies a simple story of long-run decline for social democrats. A progressive programme is key to revival.
- [Time for postcapitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/time-for-postcapitalism): Paul Mason continues his sketch of a postcapitalist world by drawing out its implications for something in increasingly short supply—time.
- [Is there a revival of the Socialist Party in Spain?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/socialist-party-in-spain): The April general election in Spain was certainly a step forward for the Socialist Party. But that was only a recovery from its ‘third way’ step back.
- [Social justice in the Treaty of Versailles: a very brief history](https://www.socialeurope.eu/treaty-of-versailles): The centenary of the Treaty of Versailles should remind us how closely it connected the fragile promise of peace to the quest for social justice.
- [Young, educated and jobless](https://www.socialeurope.eu/young-educated-and-jobless): A decade after the onset of the global crisis, youth unemployment remains high in many industrialised countries. But it’s not an act of nature.
- [The far-right international is here—when will the left wake up?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-far-right-international): The political forces most hostile to European integration are also the only ones to have formulated a common vision for Europe.
- [Europe’s future: democracy and equality should come first](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-and-equality): In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Jan Zielonka offers a vision of a normative, not a technocratic, Europe, driven by the values of democracy and equality.
- [Facebook’s Libra must be stopped](https://www.socialeurope.eu/facebooks-libra-must-be-stopped): After years of disregarding privacy, exploiting user data and failing to control its platform, Facebook has unveiled a cryptocurrency and payment system that could take down the entire global economy.
- [The gender pay gap: where to start?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-gender-pay-gap): The gender pay gap in the EU remains stubbornly wide. Unpacking it highlights its wide social ramifications.
- [Beyond the EU budget zero-sum game](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-the-eu-budget-zero-sum-game): Discussion of the EU budget brings strife between supposed net contributors and beneficiaries. Yet the picture is more complex and Europe-wide taxation offers a way out.
- [Older and wiser?—when governments get it wrong on pensions reform](https://www.socialeurope.eu/older-and-wiser-pensions-reform): Greater dependency ratios may imply pensions reform—but not that it be unfair.
- [The Danish election: a red wave with black undercurrents](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-danish-election): The large swing to the left in the Danish election could lead to a long period of opposition for the right. Unless, that is, the social democrats revert to their ‘third way’ approach when last in government.
- [This time is different](https://www.socialeurope.eu/this-time-is-different): Marx once wrote of the temptation, confronted with a new historical situation, to summon up the ‘borrowed language’ of the past. He’s still right.
- [Social imbalances in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-imbalances-in-the-eu): Despite the economic recovery of recent years, persistent social imbalances—such as those affecting women and young people—must be taken into account in the debate on Europe’s future.
- [Big Data and its enclosure of the commons](https://www.socialeurope.eu/big-data-and-the-commons): Digital dystopias are overdone but inequality is rising. The answer lies in treating data as a commons and Big Data as a collective-action problem.
- [Finland stepping up to climate leadership—will the government deliver?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/finland-climate-leadership): The new social-democrat led government in Finland has committed the country to carbon neutrality by 2035. Can, will it be done?
- [Europe’s coal problem](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-coal-problem): The eurozone muddled through its crisis at Germany’s behest. The climate emergency is much too serious for that.
- [Curbs on migration or freedom of movement—the Swiss experience](https://www.socialeurope.eu/freedom-of-movement-switzerland): Arguments about immigration have polarised between restriction and liberalisation. But key are accompanying measures to ensure freedom of movement is associated with wage and social protection.
- [Redefining austerity: a lesson from Greece](https://www.socialeurope.eu/redefining-austerity-greece): What can an elected left-wing European government do when faced with imposed austerity? Redefining austerity can bring a turnaround.
- [Structural crisis and robotisation require more Europe, less austerity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/extended-crises-and-robotisation): The Great Recession, as with the Great Depression, is proving to be a structural crisis, which only a Euro-Keynesian programme of public investment can tackle.
- [Modern monetary theory: a simple macroeconomic model](https://www.socialeurope.eu/modern-monetary-theory-model): Why has modern monetary theory come out of the academy? Because it helps model the current economic predicament and how to get out of it.
- [Populists, greens and the new map of European politics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populists-greens-new-political-map): In light of the gains by green parties and right-wing populists in the Euro-elections, Sheri Berman explores how the traditionally dominant parties respond to such challenges.
- [Welcome to GAFA land—where the winner takes it all](https://www.socialeurope.eu/welcome-to-gafa-land): The Big Tech platforms have established monopolies which disempower their competitors as well as their workers. EU competition law can be used by unions seeking to bring them to heel.
- [How European telcos are monitoring our online activity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-telcos-monitoring-online): The security and privacy of personal data are being jeopardised as Deep Packet Inspection is deployed by internet service providers.
- [Sovereign spreads and the frailty of the eurozone](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eurozone-sovereign-spreads): The failure to provide for risk-sharing in the eurozone architecture has sustained chronic mistrust, reflected in sovereign spreads.
- [The Euro-elections in microcosm: Macron versus Le Pen](https://www.socialeurope.eu/euro-elections-macron-v-le-pen): Marine Le Pen didn’t surge forward in France, yet Emmanuel Macron lacked a winning alternative. It was the populists versus the progressives in the Euro-elections writ small.
- [Industrial policy: is there a paradigm shift in Germany and what does this imply for Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-in-germany): A paper from the German economy minister on a national industrial policy has gone down like a lead balloon. Peter Bofinger argues it needs to be reflated—and coloured green—at a European level.
- [The free market is not the answer](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-free-market-is-not-the-answer): Earlier this month, the leader of the youth section of the German SPD ruffled feathers with his call for an ‘attractive utopia’ as an alternative to capitalism.
- [It’s time to talk about democracy at work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-at-work): Democracy at work has many benefits but above all it is a matter of human dignity.
- [Fighting for a Europe of tax justice](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-europe-of-tax-justice): An outgoing green MEP reflects on a decade of working for tax justice in the European Parliament and the challenges for her successors.
- [To the postcapitalist city … via Amsterdam circa 1619](https://www.socialeurope.eu/to-the-postcapitalist-city): What makes the 21st century city the harbinger of a postcapitalist world is that for the first time in modern history the network can transcend the market.
- [Rethinking Europe—a challenge for trade unions](https://www.socialeurope.eu/rethinking-europe-trade-unions): In our ‘Europe2025’ series, setting the agenda for the EU in the new term following the coming elections, Peter Scherrer outlines a project for rethinking Europe from a trade-union perspective.
- [Understanding the far-right populists: focus on their political message](https://www.socialeurope.eu/far-right-populists): Conventional wisdom is that the rise of the far-right populists is down to a popular cultural backlash. What’s really happened is they have broadened their support through a civic-nationalist narrative.
- [The good life after work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-good-life-after-work): To manage the latest wave of automation, we must have ends that are more compelling than merely wanting more products and services.
- [Grassroots online support and progressive political innovation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/progressive-political-innovation): There is a widespread sense of a crisis of representation in Europe. Can a platform for crowdfunding and volunteering support political innovation?
- [Where are the limits of Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-are-the-limits-of-europe): For Branko Milanovic the limits of Europe are set by the inequality successive EU enlargements have enhanced.
- [The Celtic Tiger leaves Irish workers scarred](https://www.socialeurope.eu/celtic-tiger-workers-scarred): Workers in Ireland are still bearing the brunt after the Celtic Tiger’s demise—but with a modest gain against the precarisation of work.
- [Unequal Europe—collating the data](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unequal-europe): Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a website collating the sources of data on inequality across the European Union and exploring evidence-based policy prescriptions? Now there is.
- [Polarisation, fragmentation—the challenge after the elections in Spain](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-elections-in-spain): The elections in Spain represented a modest victory for the outgoing Socialists but the rhetoric of the right recalled a much darker era.
- [Is the crisis of social democracy a crisis of equality?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/crisis-of-equality): Social democracy in Europe is struggling to come to terms with the more complex equality agenda of today—to which its Antipodean counterparts are however offering some answers.
- [The trilemma of Big Tech](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-trilemma-of-big-tech): Karin Pettersson says we can have Big Tech’s market domination, business models and democracy—just not all at the same time.
- [The Juncker commission: lessons from an almost-lost mandate](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-juncker-commission): The outgoing European Commission had some successes. But it was more defined by its shortcomings.
- [Inequality: from redistribution to predistribution and beyond?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inequality-socialisation): Soaring income inequality inevitably raises discussion of more progressive taxation. But a more fundamental focus on the ownership of capital is needed.
- [Austerity is hurting women’s health](https://www.socialeurope.eu/austerity-is-hurting-womens-health): A close look at how the austerity practised in the UK since 2010 has affected women’s health shows a gender lens must always be applied to see the full picture.
- [A message for May Day](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-message-for-may-day): Mayday, mayday: the leader of the European trade union movement warns of the threat from the populists in the coming EP elections.
- [Workers change the world](https://www.socialeurope.eu/workers-change-the-world): The president of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament reflects on her retirement at the forthcoming elections and on the battles to come.
- [How to tax a multinational](https://www.socialeurope.eu/how-to-tax-a-multinational): For too long, multinational corporations—and digital firms in particular—have used existing rules to avoid paying taxes in countries where they do much of their business.
- [Output gap nonsense](https://www.socialeurope.eu/output-gap-nonsense): Adam Tooze explains how a false exactitude in economics has led to a terrible politics in the EU.
- [Are ILO labour standards up for sale?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ilo-labour-standards-up-for-sale): In its centenary year, the International Labour Organization received a poisoned chalice from the United Nations—an institutional reform which could represent a threat to ILO labour standards.
- [Reframing the European welfare state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-welfare-state): The European welfare state does not have to be rebuilt from scratch. But it does have to focus on renewal rather than repair and on social solidarity rather than individual subjection.
- [From Europe-as-project to a real political community](https://www.socialeurope.eu/from-europe-as-project): Continuing our Europe2025 series, Marija Bartl argues that the metaphor of Europe as a ‘project’ foregrounds market integration and forestalls the emergence of a European public sphere.
- [European youth need something to vote for beyond precarious work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-youth-precarious-work): Forty-four per cent of workers aged 19 to 24 hold only a temporary contract – a recovery built on precarious work, not on choice.
- [Populism and the embrace of complexity](https://www.socialeurope.eu/populism-and-complexity): Populists may often thrive with simple narratives. But Sheri Berman warns that simple explanations of populism itself will not pass muster.
- [Europe’s destiny is at stake](https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-destiny-is-at-stake): Léonce Bekemans initiates a ‘Europe2025’ series on Social Europe, which will look beyond the May elections to the challenges in the next term, with a call for a mobilising vision.
- [How the market is betraying advanced economies](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-market-betraying-economies): The idea that ‘the market’ must be the organising principle for collective decision-making should be abandoned.
- [Modern monetary theory: the dose makes the poison](https://www.socialeurope.eu/modern-monetary-theory): Can government deficits be financed directly by central banks, as modern monetary theory suggests? The question should not be if but how much.
- [The future of manufacturing—is it in Europe?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-manufacturing): Europe can remain a manufacturing hub if it ensures early adoption of game-changing technologies, engages with global supply chains and manages the green transition.
- [The sustainability imperative—how really to assess the European economy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-sustainability-imperative): The European Semester process of macroeconomic country analysis by the European Commission has been driven by economic orthodoxy in support of austerity—when sustainability should be the watchword.
- [The new spirit of postcapitalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-new-spirit-of-postcapitalism): Capitalism emerged in the interstices of feudalism and Paul Mason finds a prefiguring of postcapitalism in the lifeworld of the contemporary European city.
- [‘Full and good employment’ and reviving the European ideal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/full-and-good-employment): The logic of a Euro-Keynesian recovery, towards socially useful full employment, leads inexorably to a rediscovery of wider European political ambition.
- [Normalising fascism in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/normalising-fascism-in-the-eu): Uproar followed comments by the Italian president of the European Parliament in qualified praise of Mussolini. They raise big questions about the direction of the European centre right.
- [PiS attacks LGBT+ rights in Poland, as elections loom](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pis-attacks-lgbt-rights-in-poland): Amid simmering social discontent and with the Catholic Church wracked by sex-abuse scandals, Poland’s clerical-nationalist party is exploiting homophobia to drive a wedge into the opposition.
- [Memory, myth and ‘post-truth’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/memory-myth-and-post-truth): In the era of ‘post-truth’, history isn’t what it used to be—which makes solving the problems of the present so much more difficult.
- [Can data-labour unions break the monopoly capture of data?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/monopoly-capture-of-data): Karin Pettersson begins a series of Social Europe columns by arguing it’s time to rethink ‘free’ data as the product of labour.
- [EU competition policy: a more holistic approach needed](https://www.socialeurope.eu/eu-competition-policy): The European Commission looks at mergers only through the narrow, consumer-price lens of its competition policy. The wider public interest is not being served.
- [Restoring trust in Europe—wage rises and workplace democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/restoring-trust-in-europe): Flatlining wages, denial of workplace voice and precarity are undermining trust in Europe—and assisting the siren calls of the populists.
- [Without solidarity, democracy is lost](https://www.socialeurope.eu/without-solidarity-democracy-lost): If Europe’s democratic architecture is cracking, it is because its foundations are weakening. Solidarity is one of them.
- [Beyond identity politics and culture wars—a new universalism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-universalism): We used to demand peace and love—now we demand no discrimination and no hate. Why did we lower our ambitions?
- [The apogee of capitalism and our political malaise](https://www.socialeurope.eu/our-political-malaise): At the heart of the crisis of trust in politics lies the corrosion of public service by the ethos of private gain.
- [European recovery: we need both joint debt and taxes](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-recovery): Carlo D’Ippoliti adds to the Social Europe debate on a European recovery, contending that the proposals by Varoufakis and Piketty each have merits and should be synthesised.
- [Macron and Kramp-Karrenbauer: vive la différence?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-public-sphere): The proxy media exchange between the French president and the leader of the German Christian democrats is a sign of an emergent European public sphere.
- [I’m taking Friday off—permanently](https://www.socialeurope.eu/im-taking-friday-off-permanently): It’s time to share evenly the benefits of automation. That’s why trade unions are calling for a four-day week.
- [Green money without inflation](https://www.socialeurope.eu/green-money-without-inflation): Funding an ecological transition in Europe via ‘green money’ bonds would be economically justifiable.
- [Could Europe face the next recession?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-next-recession): The eurozone lacks the scaffolding to withstand the symmetrical shock of the next recession, which could imperil the euro itself.
- [What are central banks for?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/what-are-central-banks-for): The eurozone remains mired in unemployment while the European Central Bank targets only inflation. Adam Tooze begins a series of Social Europe columns by explaining the hidden history of the Fed’s more successful dual mandate.
- [‘Imaginable utopias’: financing a European recovery](https://www.socialeurope.eu/financing-a-european-recovery): Julio López G adds to the debate, initiated by Thomas Piketty and colleagues, on how to spur a European recovery and green transition.
- [Siege of Sarajevo: perpetrators of deadly attacks remain unprosecuted](https://www.socialeurope.eu/siege-of-sarajevo): Twenty-seven years since the siege of Sarajevo began, a handful of commanders have been tried, but Bosnian prosecutors have not yet filed any indictments against direct perpetrators of sniping and shelling attacks on civilians.
- [Chief executives’ pay: reversing the race to the top](https://www.socialeurope.eu/chief-executives-pay): Eye-watering remuneration for chief executives is economically wasteful as well as socially divisive. Non-profits should pioneer compressed wage hierarchies.
- [Capitalism and democracy: what if we have it backwards?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/capitalism-and-democracy): It has become fashionable on the left to suggest that capitalism and democracy are now incompatible. In her latest column, Sheri Berman reviews the contrary case.
- [Could the dollar be in default?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/could-the-dollar-be-in-default): The US has been able to run growing budget deficits by issuing more dollars as the reserve currency. If a polycentric world ends its indulgence, the shock to America could be great.
- [Whistleblowers directive still needs to change](https://www.socialeurope.eu/whistleblowers-directive): An EU directive nearing completion would protect the whistleblowers at the heart of recent scandals—but only if they reported within their organisation first.
- [Science and subterfuge in economics](https://www.socialeurope.eu/science-and-subterfuge): A big argument of neoliberal economics is that unemployment is reduced by labour-market deregulation. Lack of robust evidence doesn’t seem to get in the way.
- [European Parliament elections: new responses in dangerous times](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-parliament-elections): The European Parliament elections could see the emergence of a large populist bloc thwarting progress for the next five years. A big mobilisation is needed to prevent that.
- [Europeanising pensions and unemployment insurance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/pensions-unemployment-insurance): A European mechanism for pensions and unemployment insurance would protect vulnerable economies against asymmetric shocks and give life to the European Pillar of Social Rights.
- [Time for a red shift from Germany’s ‘black zero’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-black-zero): For a decade there has been cross-party support in Germany for the balanced-budget rule. But in the first of a series of Social Europe columns on German economic debates, Peter Bofinger explains why the social democrats should abandon the ‘black zero’.
- [Where the ‘Piketty plan’ is mistaken](https://www.socialeurope.eu/where-the-piketty-plan-is-mistaken): Stuart Holland argues that what Europe needs urgently is not new institutions, as recommended by Thomas Piketty and others, but a Green New Deal.
- [Financing the Green New Deal in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/financing-the-green-new-deal): Should investment in a New Deal for Europe come from taxation or borrowing? Only the latter makes economic and political sense, argues James K Galbraith.
- [Portugal’s ‘contraption’ government: substance beyond the rhetoric?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-contraption-government): The pluralist-left coalition—‘contraption’ to its detractors—in Portugal has changed the political discourse. Change is less evident, however, on the ground.
- [Will workers’ rights lose out to ‘freedom of establishment?’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/will-workers-rights-lose-out): Who stands for Europe: the council of member states or the parliament of the citizens? A little-noticed coming directive will once again test that issue—with workers’ rights at stake.
- [Trade unions tackling populism](https://www.socialeurope.eu/trade-unions-tackling-populism): The populists present themselves as the voice of the ‘little people’. For trade unions tackling populism entails standing up for a fair and sustainable globalisation.
- [The unbearable unrealism of the present](https://www.socialeurope.eu/postcaptalism-unbearable-unrealism): Paul Mason begins a series of columns for Social Europe on the theme of postcapitalism and society, stressing the urgency of a new economic model.
- [The great tax debate—the world is turning](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-great-tax-debate): When intellectual and moral arguments align, the global climate can change quickly. That’s what’s happening with the US tax debate.
- [Countering the crisis of the left](https://www.socialeurope.eu/countering-the-crisis-of-the-left): Should social democracy tack towards populists wooing its electorate with xenophobic slogans? The crisis of the left demands instead a positive alternative to social insecurity.
- [It is time to restore the wage share](https://www.socialeurope.eu/restore-the-wage-share): The wage share has been falling across the world as inequality has increased in recent decades. A co-ordinated rise is needed, starting in Europe, to reverse that.
- [Social discontent and democracy in the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/democracy-in-the-eu): Europe’s citizens stand restive at a crossroads. After the May parliamentary election, democracy in the EU can take a leap forward—or the populists can reprise a dark history.
- [Enforcing labour standards via EU free-trade agreements](https://www.socialeurope.eu/enforcing-labour-standards): Free-trade agreements have raised huge controversy over clauses allowing of corporate challenge. But they can be used to enforce labour standards.
- [Democracy splutters—good governance under pressure](https://www.socialeurope.eu/good-governance-under-pressure): Amid political polarisation and declining democratic standards, can OECD and EU countries sustain the good governance challenges such as globalisation, social inequality and climate breakdown demand?
- [Erdoğan’s aggression against Turkey’s Kurds—it’s personal](https://www.socialeurope.eu/turkeys-kurds): Turkey’s Kurds have long faced oppression by the state. But they have come to be seen by the Erdoğan regime as the main obstacle to its untrammelled power.
- [Jeremy Corbyn is wrong on the EU](https://www.socialeurope.eu/jeremy-corbyn-is-wrong-on-the-eu): The UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is wrong to believe the EU environment inimical to a radical government. He should support a second ‘Brexit’ referendum.
- [The migrants genocide: the banality of democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-migrants-genocide): The vast numbers drowning invisibly in the Mediterranean have evoked little European sympathy. Redefining this tragedy as the migrants genocide might bring a shock.
- [The loss of European memory](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-loss-of-european-memory): A commitment to democracy, human rights and the rule of law was Europe’s answer to fascism. The loss of this European memory presents real dangers amid a resurgent populism.
- [European social rights—Marshall for the 21st century](https://www.socialeurope.eu/european-social-rights): The European Union has been much more successful at ‘negative’, market-liberalising integration than ‘positive’ social measures. The concept of social rights can change that.
- [Does the European Union generate external instability?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/external-instability): The historic achievement of peace within a Europe of universal norms is belied by the external instability engendered by violent and incoherent interventions.
- [Macron the populist](https://www.socialeurope.eu/macron-the-populist): The popularity of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has slumped—but then inside Macron the populist is Macron the elitist.
- [Are anti-immigrant parties anti-democratic?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/anti-immigrant-parties): The European Parliament elections may well be dominated by the issue of migration. But should anti-immigrant parties enjoy democratic legitimacy?
- [From the ‘yellow vests’ to the social-ecological state](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-social-ecological-state): The concept of the social-ecological state can inspire a new social policy to tackle the twin crises of inequality and environment.
- [European citizens back unemployment reinsurance](https://www.socialeurope.eu/unemployment-reinsurance): An unemployment reinsurance scheme benefiting countries hit by asymmetric shocks attracts what to some will be surprising support across the EU.
- [Migrant workers and xenophobia in the UK labour movement](https://www.socialeurope.eu/migrant-workers-and-xenophobia): There has been a growing climate of xenophobia towards migrant workers in the UK in recent years. Unfortunately, parts of the labour movement have been complicit in it.
- [Social resistance in Hungary](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-resistance-in-hungary): The regime of Viktor Orbán in Hungary had looked impregnable. But protests against the ‘slave-labour law’ encapsulated growing social alienation, with a wider European resonance.
- [Can Italy survive its self-inflicted wounds?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/italys-populist-government): Italy’s populist government has been keen to blame Brussels for its fiscal-policy constraint. But its own choice of crowd-pleasing spending over public investment and reform should be scrutinised.
- [Politics in Poland: eternal duopoly or refreshing breeze?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/politics-in-poland): While the European Parliament elections near, politics in Poland is at such a crux that the later parliamentary polls there will have wide reverberations.
- [Inequality and unions—Brexit, Trump and ‘yellow vests’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/inequality-and-unions): Those on modest incomes used to compare themselves only with those around them, muting their anger. Globalisation has raised awareness of the inequality it has fostered but has weakened the unions best placed to fight it—with inchoate rage the result.
- [A human-centred agenda for the future of work](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-future-of-work): Much discussion of the future of work suggests it can only be a dystopian, robotic world. But the report of an ILO commission shows how humans, not algorithms, can be in charge.
- [European Parliament elections: prospects for the left?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-european-parliament-elections): Following a string of national defeats, social-democrat parties are ill-prepared as the European Parliament elections loom. Success for the left in May will depend on its ability to reframe the political argument.
- [For a democratic European government](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-democratic-european-government): The election to the European Parliament in May has one major flaw: it cannot lead to the election of a democratic European government.
- [The Swedish face of inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-swedish-face-of-inequality): Sweden used to be revered for stemming inequality through progressive taxation and universal welfare. Now tax breaks for the wealthy and ‘free choice’ in public goods such as education cocoon the rich from the rest.
- [Tackling insecure work in Europe—a critical moment](https://www.socialeurope.eu/tackling-insecure-work-in-europe): The good news is that employment in the EU is at a record high. The bad news is that so much of it is insecure work—and a directive currently in train needs to be tough enough to fix that.
- [Addressing poverty and inequality in Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/poverty-and-inequality-in-europe): Official EU statistics mask the alarming extent of poverty and inequality in Europe. Despite slight recent easing, its dangerous scale threatens Europe’s social and political cohesion.
- [Precarious work leads to precarious lives](https://www.socialeurope.eu/precarious-work-precarious-lives): In Ireland the absence of universal health- and childcare makes the insecurity of precarious work even greater.
- [Why Alexis Tsipras is still not a social democrat](https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-alexis-tsipras-is-still-not-a-social-democrat): Social democracy is not the same as populism, argues Dimitrios Kotroyannos. And Alexis Tsipras remains a populist.
- [The crisis of globalisation: interview with Mark Blyth](https://www.socialeurope.eu/crisis-of-globalisation-mark-blyth): Towards the end of 2018, Henning Meyer, editor-in-chief of Social Europe, spoke to the expert on international political economy Mark Blyth, about the crisis of globalisation, populism, Brexit and other political disasters waiting to happen.
- [The Left must respond to grievances over immigration](https://www.socialeurope.eu/left-must-respond-on-immigration): Sheri Berman contends that the left needs to develop distinct and feasible responses to immigration to counter the populists’ dystopian visions.
- [Mass immigration and the growth of inequality](https://www.socialeurope.eu/mass-immigration-growth-inequality): James Wickham looks at mass immigration and the growth of inequality and shows why it is important to link immigration to changes in an economy’s occupational structure.
- [Beyond GDP](https://www.socialeurope.eu/beyond-gdp): GDP figures are often in the public eye but they are insufficient measures for well-being. Economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we need to look beyond GDP.
- [Averting the death of social democracy](https://www.socialeurope.eu/averting-the-death-of-social-democracy)
- [Migration and forgetting in central Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/migration-and-forgetting-in-central-europe)
- [Social democrats must say another Globalisation is possible](https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-democrats-must-say-another-globalisation-is-possible)
- [If Biedroń is to help rebuild the Polish left, he has to be the opposite of Macron](https://www.socialeurope.eu/if-biedron-is-to-help-rebuild-the-polish-left-he-has-to-be-the-opposite-of-macron)
- [No new narratives, please!](https://www.socialeurope.eu/no-new-narratives-please)
- [A democratic model for Facebook](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-democratic-model-for-facebook)
- [AI’s ethical implications: the responsibility of firms, policymakers and society?](https://www.socialeurope.eu/ais-ethical-implications-the-responsibility-of-firms-policymakers-and-society)
- [A Cautionary Tale To Be Had From Swedish School Reforms](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-cautionary-tale-to-be-had-from-swedish-school-reforms)
- [The “Klimakanzlerin” Takes A Bow And Leaves A Vacuum](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-klimakanzlerin-takes-a-bow-and-leaves-a-vacuum)
- [The Liberal Delusion](https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-liberal-delusion)
- [A New Political Narrative For Europe](https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-new-political-narrative-for-europe)
- [COP 24 Must Be The Turning Point Towards ‘Just Transition’](https://www.socialeurope.eu/cop-24-must-be-the-turning-point-towards-just-transition)
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