Public investment has been skewed towards the military in the last decade when a much wider array of threats are in evidence.
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Worldwide strikes, protests—making Amazon pay
The monopoly online retailer has extracted vast rents from workers and citizens who are raising their voices globally.
Prioritising profits over Europe’s childcare
As in adult long-term care, corporations are accruing rents from publicly funded childcare, exploiting workers and children.
War in Gaza: the silence of Europe’s leaders
The European Union must find a collective and distinctive voice to seek to rein in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
Big tent: the social-democratic election formula
A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.
The imperative of reforming EU economic governance
Finance ministers must forestall reapplication of the existing fiscal rules, to prevent a disastrous renewal of austerity.
Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics
Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.
Dangers ahead for the platform-work directive
The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.
Collective bargaining—key to business performance
Collective bargaining does not only improve workers’ wages and conditions. It also enhances company performance.
Germany’s true economic disease
Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.
Making EU economic governance fit for purpose
Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.
Non-EU migrant workers—the ties that bind
The European Union stands at a fork in the road when it comes to its treatment of external migrant workers.
All work and low pay—Europe’s migrant workforce
To really end labour shortages, Ankita Anand writes, Europe must transform its contract with the global south.
Feeling the heat: Europe’s firefighters need support
Firefighter numbers have been cut, when investment—especially in prevention—is key to stemming Europe’s wildfires.
Lean work and a narrowing path to ‘good jobs’
Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.
Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab
The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.
Lachin corridor needs more than EU tunnel vision
If Europe does not wake up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, it could be complicit in genocide.
Olaf Scholz, the improbable role model
A state that protects—and a bulwark for democracy and modernity. Is this, Robert Misik asks, the new paradigm of the democratic left?
World Cup kiss: feminist progress meets backlash
Spain’s #MeToo moment shows however that things are changing.
Facing Europe’s huge challenges
The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine.
Taking aim at sellers’ inflation
Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.
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