Social Europe - Page 85

Effective pandemic response must be truly global

The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.

Jayati Ghosh bemoans the economics profession’s inability to think beyond crude analyses of inflation—and crude policies to stem it.

Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?

Calls for the ECB to raise rates to stem inflation have missed the negative impact of ‘structural reforms’ of labour markets on innovation.

Zero-hours contracts are set to be legalised and 70 per cent of the workforce exempted from workplace protections.

As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism.

The grim statistics on workers’ rights will only be righted if global standards are properly enforced.

Only one political figure will benefit from chaos in Italy. He is in Moscow, not Rome.

Mainstream politicians, Lisa Pelling writes, must recognise that their words have consequences.

The Uber Files contain a fearful reference to a European NGO. One of its campaigners responds.

The huge challenges facing the EU can only be met if citizens are confident it acts in the public interest.

Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.

Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.

Further empowering the parliament and reducing unanimous decision-making would help tackle the EU’s democratic deficit.

Quotas can encourage corporate leadership to assign more importance to equality.