Incentives in reverse: returning Ukrainian refugees
Controversial proposals addressed to Ukrainian refugees may perversely only keep them in exile.
Trust in crisis: Europe’s social contract under threat
The corrosion of trust underlies many of the social pathologies of today—but there are solutions.
Europe’s great tax divide
Hard-pressed Europeans bear most of the tax-raising brunt, while the wealthy get away very lightly.
The Summit of the Future—committing to action
Ireland’s president sends a message to fellow heads of state and government as they ready for New York.
After the Laffer curve: taxing the rich, at last
It’s time finally to jettison the convenient claim that taxing the rich more would only reduce tax revenue.
Draghi report: a social agenda is lacking
The report on European ‘competitiveness’ is good on industrial strategy but poor from a social perspective.
Between the cracks: third-country posted workers
Effective transnational co-operation is required to protect third-country posted workers from abuses.
Sub-minimum wages: young people, old attitudes
Laggard European Union member states must act to ensure abolition of sub-minimum rates of pay.
In difficult times, social cohesion has improved
Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
At Italy’s dark heart: the weak rule of law
Giorgia Meloni’s government is squandering a golden opportunity to reverse Italy’s economic decline.
The ascendant far right: the lust for cruelty
After the elections in eastern-German Länder and ahead of those in Austria, Robert Misik casts an unsentimental eye on far-right voters.
Reclaiming time from its tyranny
We are running out of time on the climate crisis—yet ‘slow living’ is a key to its solution.
Kant, Einstein and ‘perpetual peace’
In today’s runaway world, Einstein’s ideal of ‘abolishing war’ becomes unavoidable rather than impractical.
Adapting workplaces to climate change
To sustain healthy and safe conditions at work, unprecedented action is urgently needed.
Housing cracks: multi-pronged approach required
Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.
The AfD can win on an extremist platform
The results in Saxony and Thuringia show the party does not have to moderate its positions to have electoral success.
EU climate ambition: ensuring it is lawful
NGOs have increasingly looked to the courts for action on climate change. Now the Court of Justice of the EU is the focus.