Progressive taxation for a renewed social contract
A new social-democratic era requires a return to the steep postwar tax gradient.
Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
The greatest democrat Russia ever had
Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia's last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.
The life and death of Italian centrism
Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.
Deinstitutionalising disabled people—making it happen
Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.
Ukraine could abandon key labour principle
The government’s post-war reconstruction plans threaten a ‘Mad Max-style dystopia’.
Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel
Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.
Blurring of boundaries in work’s ‘new normal’
The good news is that ‘hybrid’ working favours employee self-determination. The bad news is it’s hard to keep work at bay.
‘Whatever it takes’, ten years on
A decade ago Mario Draghi helped save the euro and the EU. Yet the lessons have still fully to sink in.
Effective pandemic response must be truly global
The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.
Dealing with inflation, really
Jayati Ghosh bemoans the economics profession’s inability to think beyond crude analyses of inflation—and crude policies to stem it.
European women’s football—still a cold-war divide
Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?
The productivity slowdown, inflation and austerity
Calls for the ECB to raise rates to stem inflation have missed the negative impact of ‘structural reforms’ of labour markets on innovation.
Ukraine to pass laws wrecking workers’ rights
Zero-hours contracts are set to be legalised and 70 per cent of the workforce exempted from workplace protections.
European union leaders on the fight for democracy
As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism.
How to restore workers’ rights
The grim statistics on workers’ rights will only be righted if global standards are properly enforced.
Draghi’s resignation: what next?
Only one political figure will benefit from chaos in Italy. He is in Moscow, not Rome.