Taking Europe’s pandemic pulse
A tentative growth in trust shows Covid-19 has not yet torn the social fabric of Europe.
Mind the gap
The digitalisation of work, despite its potential, risks becoming an impersonal means by which employers tilt the balance of power.
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.
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?
‘Industry 4.0’ may be neither so extensive nor advanced as those in whom it arouses hopes and fears.
Avoiding a climate lockdown
The world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilisation will require dramatic interventions.
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 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.
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
The temptation to cut welfare expenditures to reduce deficits inflated by the pandemic must be resisted.
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
The pandemic closed theatres, concerts and exhibitions, imperilling many freelances. How will the creative industry re-emerge?
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.
Assar Lindbeck: an appreciation
The Swedish economist’s life of rich activity straddled theory and policy—and painting.
Enclosing the market
Despite increasing criticism of Big Tech, the business models of leading digital companies are still widely admired. That’s a problem.
The European minimum wage will come—but how?
The principle of a European minimum wage is established. How it should be set is not.
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.