Social Europe - Page 61

From inflation shock to a sharp distributional conflict

Wages have fallen behind inflation, while profit-taking has not only fuelled price rises but reduced the labour share.

The clunky debate over four versus five days should be replaced by a focus on flexibility and individal autonomy.

The European Union is crossing human-rights red lines with its Common European Asylum System.

Once installed in power, authoritarian leaders such as Erdoğan and Orbán are very hard to dislodge.

The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.

Rising inequality is a challenge for the multilateral system, Jayati Ghosh writes, which must first measure it properly.

Women are increasingly assuming leading roles in trade unions. Next comes changing organisational cultures.

The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.

Europe needs to address a major factor in the mental-health crisis facing adolescent girls in particular.

Parliamentary elections this weekend in Spain could see the far-right party win a share of power.

Vaccines and medicines must no longer be thought of as profitable commodities but public goods.

Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.

In France the debate is moving from longer to better working lives, Sofia Fernandes writes, but this is a Europe-wide challenge.

Europe’s unwillingness to invest in public services and meet the greatest need is creating second-class citizens.

The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.