Trade unions on the frontline in the cost-of-living crisis
Defending workers' living standards has become trade unions' primary concern.
Are workers going to pay the bill for Putin’s war?
Real wages could fall by 2.9 per cent in the European Union in 2022.
Enclosing the internet—Big Tech’s cloud cover
Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.
Who is to blame? Citizens, elites and democracy
If there is a crisis of democracy, look up at leaders rather than down at citizens to find it.
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.