Organising and bargaining in the platform economy
Unions have the capacities to mobilise and represent platform workers and connected workforces in non-standard work forms.
Mental health in a digital world of work
A crisis of wellbeing is invisibly surging in the digital economy. As with the coronavirus, Europe needs to get a grip on it.
Cost-of-living emergency: Europe needs radical steps
Measures advanced by trade unions, and trade union involvement, will be key to getting through this crisis.
Beyond the politics of ‘us’ and ‘them’
In a world that is ever more interconnected it is essential to question naturalised dividing lines and build solidarity.
Occupations, respect and social status
‘Respect’ was a motif of the successful electoral campaign by Germany’s social-democratic leader, Olaf Scholz, in 2021. What’s at stake?
The left must embrace fiscal restructuring
A raft of new instruments are required to address the rentier capitalism of today and the threat to the ecosphere.
Government by finger-pointing
The new Swedish government, Lisa Pelling writes, is obsessed with stigmatising immigrants and refugees.
Ten years for a small but important step for women
European Union institutions at long last finalise a directive to put more women on company boards.
Combating inflation: the case for one-off wealth taxes
Monetary tightening only risks recession, whereas fiscal measures can set Europe on a sustainable recovery path.
Constitutional moments: Chile and Iceland
Some perspective on the referendum defeat for Chile’s draft constitution comes from a different quarter—Iceland.
Asbestos: eradicating the hidden killer
Workers facing asbestos exposure need much more protection—through tighter limits and proper equipment and protocols.
Four legs good, two legs better?
It’s time to stop handing over the keys of state administrations to generalist private consultancy firms.
A noble award for a ‘popular misconception’
Peter Bofinger questions last week’s award of a prestigious economics prize to an orthodox school which could not anticipate the 2008 crash.
‘Greedflation’: who wins, who loses?
With inflation driven largely by corporate rent-seeking, rather than suppressing wage claims windfall profits must be taxed.
Realising Europe’s geopolitical vocation
Can the European Political Community be the backbone of a new European security architecture? Nicoletta Pirozzi asks.
The Kremlin’s suicidal imperialism
The more apparent it is that Russia is losing, the more forcefully Vladimir Putin declares that it is not.
Achieving wage justice in Europe
Making public contracts for private firms conditional on collective agreements can help stem the falling labour share.