What when there’s a vaccine?
Stuart Blume and Maurizia Mezza
Amid the accelerated scientific quest for a vaccine against the coronavirus, crucial ethical and social questions have not yet been addressed.
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.
Robots won’t make us redundant
Lars Klingbeil and Henning Meyer
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Basic income: Finland’s final verdict
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.
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.
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.
Overconsumption, globalised supply chains and the Covid-19 crisis
We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits.
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.
Covid-19 does not discriminate—nor should we
A paradigm shift in national and EU Roma strategies is more urgent than ever.
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.