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.
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
Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s idiosyncratic initial response to the coronavirus stemmed from his particularistic empire nostalgia.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Concluding the Social Europe series on ‘just transition’, Maja Göpel zooms out to elaborate the shift in narrative entailed.
Europe’s failure to address Covid-19 shows the need for a European ‘health citizenship’
A Europe-wide public-health authority should be a priority to counteract collective-action problems among EU member states.
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?
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
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
Why do the Maastricht criteria compare budget deficits and public debt with GDP rather than budget revenues? That’s a good question.
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
The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?
The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.
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.