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Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas

Kalina Arabadjieva, Nicola Countouris, Bianca Luna Fabris and Wouter Zwysen

As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity.

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EU funds need stronger social conditionality

Claes-Mikael Ståhl, Judith Kirton-Darling, Jan Willem Goudriaan, Kristjan Bragason and Oliver Roethig

The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners.

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Not so much a shortage of skills as a shortage of pay

Wouter Zwysen

Labour shortages following the pandemic have increased most and are most severe in jobs with lower wages and poorer conditions.

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Russia’s appeal to ‘warrior masculinity’

Marina Yusupova

Putin's Victory Day pitch for more military recruits is unlikely to encourage men to enlist in the army.

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Greening eastern Europe’s growth engines

Soňa Muzikárová

The region has moved far too slowly in an era in which decarbonisation and climate resilience are essential.

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Euronews: public-interest journalism in jeopardy

Oliver Roethig and Ricardo Gutierrez

Workers and their unions are today sounding the alarm for media independence at the heart of Europe.

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Steel’s power—and politicians’ lack of mettle

Sabine Frank

The steel industry’s strategic importance and lobbying power have shielded it from a tightening of the Emissions Trading System.

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Elevating the Cinderellas of social care

Lisa Pelling

The pandemic put care workers under terrible pressure, Lisa Pelling writes. Yet unions have been able to win greater recognition for them.

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Introducing AI at work: workers must be involved

Isabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu

Rather than being displaced or controlled by AI, workers should be co-designers of its workplace deployment.

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Ukraine reforms welfare system as cost of war rises

Kateryna Semchuk and Thomas Rowley

Social support will become means-tested as millions of Ukrainians face war, displacement and poverty.

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Europe needs a social compass

Esther Lynch, Nicola Countouris and Philippe Pochet

Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential.

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Oh, Europe!?—a vision is still needed

Günther Schmid

Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.

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Financing the common good

Mariana Mazzucato

The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.

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How to prevent a housing crisis

Hans Dubois

The cost-of-living crisis threatens to tip over into a housing crisis. Prevention is better than cure.

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EIB: dispensing billions to corporate profiteers

Frank Vanaerschot and Paul Creeney

The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.

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