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.
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.
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.
Capitalism’s 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.
Capitalism’s 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.
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.
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.