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.
Europe under quarantine
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the shared vulnerability of Europe’s interdependence. Time to turn that into a strength.
The Covid-19 debt deluge
The Covid-19 crisis may have set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in the Asian economies on the front lines.
Europe’s refugee policy: walking headlong into disaster
The EU failed to learn from the crisis of 2015—and is now paying the price. Its refugee policy is even worse than back then.
Covid-19 is an opportunity for Europe
The EU has always advanced on the back of crises. The Covid-19 outbreak represents a chance to pools resources towards a co-ordinated fiscal policy.
The corona crisis will define our era
Karin Pettersson writes that the pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system.
Preventing the next virus outbreak
The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.
Plagued by Trumpism
For 40 years, US Republicans have been insisting that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem’. The bankruptcy of this has been laid bare.
Whose is the European Green Deal?
The challenges of social and environmental injustice are as intense as ever. But which social forces can act as the agents of change?
Making globalisation fair
Enterprises must address—and government more actively demand of them—their observance of human rights.