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.
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.
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?
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.
Germany’s 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.
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
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
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?
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
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
Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was 'Brexit', partly Corbyn.
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.
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.
Sustainability is social, environmental and economic
The principle of ‘sustainability first’ should become the golden thread unifying all EU actions.
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?
It is wrong to believe the financial sector will contribute to ecological transformation. Economic and environmental policies remain key.
Bread, roses and broadband too?
Publicly-owned fibre networks don’t just mean free WiFi. From energy grids to smart transport, they will be the backbone of a new, green socialist economy.