Social dialogue: urgent to turn words into deeds
EU instruments encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining are very valuable—but not if employers can walk away.
Sufficiency: towards an eco-social economy
The only exit from the ‘polycrisis’ is a corridor of sufficiency between meeting need and avoiding excess.
Playing games with children’s health
Rejecting bans on particularly hazardous chemicals, EU ministers have sought to dilute revised legislation on toy safety.
The European Investment Bank’s roadmap … to 2008
The EIB proposes that housing renovation and energy efficiency be financed via ‘securitised’ loans.
The ‘billions to trillions’ charade
Multilateral development banks believe private investment can meet developing economies’ climate and development needs.
Is Europe too big for further enlargement?
EU institutions are struggling to chart a vision for 27 member states, so how can they accommodate as many as 36?
Can a divided EU woo diverse emerging powers?
If the European Union is to win allies in the ‘global south’, the first thing it should do is stop talking about the ‘global south’.
Longing of the new working class for a solidary ‘we’
A German study finds the new working class lacking in class consciousness yet strongly aware of social inequalities.
‘No one can act with impunity’
The anticipated International Criminal Court arrest warrants in the Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice.
Europe and the ‘global south’ must join forces
Amid the confrontation between the United States and China, a reconstructed multilateralism can rein in the great powers.
Time for supply-side policy: Thatcher versus Schumpeter
Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.
Russia’s battle of the ministries
Powerful groups seem increasingly willing to break the unspoken rule against public infighting. This does not bode well for Putin's regime.
A new Green Deal: Europe’s defining impulse
Far from the European Green Deal being exhausted, it needs renewing with social ambition.
Femicide: why a specific crime is needed
Many countries are making the killing of women a specific crime. But laws are not enough.
No ‘business as usual’ for European industry
The choices EU leaders make in the coming years will determine whether European industry has a long-term future.
Workers’ rights—a casualty of the war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s trade union movement—and the lives of workers.
A new European social contract must be green
Civil society stands up for a European pact for the future—green, social and fit for a one-planet economy.