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.
Soaring income inequality inevitably raises discussion of more progressive taxation. But a more fundamental focus on the ownership of capital is needed.
A close look at how the austerity practised in the UK since 2010 has affected women’s health shows a gender lens must always be applied to see the full picture.
Mayday, mayday: the leader of the European trade union movement warns of the threat from the populists in the coming EP elections.
The president of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament reflects on her retirement at the forthcoming elections and on the battles to come.
For too long, multinational corporations—and digital firms in particular—have used existing rules to avoid paying taxes in countries where they do much of their business.