A paper from the German economy minister on a national industrial policy has gone down like a lead balloon. Peter Bofinger argues it needs to be reflated—and coloured green—at a European level.
Earlier this month, the leader of the youth section of the German SPD ruffled feathers with his call for an ‘attractive utopia’ as an alternative to capitalism.
There is a clear case for making gender equality a more visible part of the EU budgetary process.
Democracy at work has many benefits but above all it is a matter of human dignity.
An outgoing green MEP reflects on a decade of working for tax justice in the European Parliament and the challenges for her successors.
What makes the 21st century city the harbinger of a postcapitalist world is that for the first time in modern history the network can transcend the market.
In our ‘Europe2025’ series, setting the agenda for the EU in the new term following the coming elections, Peter Scherrer outlines a project for rethinking Europe from a trade-union perspective.
Conventional wisdom is that the rise of the far-right populists is down to a popular cultural backlash. What’s really happened is they have broadened their support through a civic-nationalist narrative.
To manage the latest wave of automation, we must have ends that are more compelling than merely wanting more products and services.
There is a widespread sense of a crisis of representation in Europe. Can a platform for crowdfunding and volunteering support political innovation?
For Branko Milanovic the limits of Europe are set by the inequality successive EU enlargements have enhanced.
Workers in Ireland are still bearing the brunt after the Celtic Tiger’s demise—but with a modest gain against the precarisation of work.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a website collating the sources of data on inequality across the European Union and exploring evidence-based policy prescriptions? Now there is.
The elections in Spain represented a modest victory for the outgoing Socialists but the rhetoric of the right recalled a much darker era.
Social democracy in Europe is struggling to come to terms with the more complex equality agenda of today—to which its Antipodean counterparts are however offering some answers.
Karin Pettersson says we can have Big Tech’s market domination, business models and democracy—just not all at the same time.
The outgoing European Commission had some successes. But it was more defined by its shortcomings.