Social Europe - Page 94

‘They’re taking our jobs’—really?

It is widely believed that migrants have displaced indigenous workers—but it’s false.

As with the coronavirus, the global north needs to recognise its interdependence with Africa when it comes to financial flows.

Pandemic protests have mobilised the language of ‘freedom’. Progressives need to redefine that as emancipation.

The Metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies.

Why did the socialists win so big in Portugal? Maybe because they weren’t expected to.

Vladimir Putin’s indulgence of his imperial impulses has far-reaching implications for Europe’s place in the world.

Kate Pickett ponders how social scientists can bring structural inequalities to light when media focus on individual lives.

Disharmony on the left could pave the way for a right-wing coalition government.

Political leaders must not turn the Conference on the Future of Europe into another EU black box.

As inflation has re-emerged, so have calls for general monetary tightening.

The pandemic has focused attention on health and safety. But workers were already dying just trying to make a living.

The EU’s controversial proposal to label nuclear energy ‘green’ could jeopardise the future of the German coalition.

The Recovery and Resilience Facility is important but will not mobilise sufficient green investment by itself.

There is no environmental, climate or economic reason to include nuclear and fossil gas in the EU investment taxonomy.

‘Inequality’ is never the official cause of a death. But, writes Jayati Ghosh, that doesn’t mean it’s not.