Luca Visentini, Nicola Countouris and Philippe Pochet
Responses to the pandemic have upended the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to macroeconomic policies engendering widening inequality.
Most livestock land will have to be repurposed as carbon sinks to remove the huge global emissions related to food production.
Many regard caring for the Earth and others as a means to an end. Everything changes if we view care as an essential set of relationships.
Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
Oliver Roethig and Stan De Spiegelaere
Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.
The growing challenges facing Europe, beyond recovery from the pandemic, require a budget to match.
It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.
Torsten Müller and Thorsten Schulten
The European Parliament has upped the ante, beyond a European Commission proposal, on a minimum-wages directive.
The feminisation of trade unions is percolating to the upper echelons. But organisational cultures still work against women taking leading roles.
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi
The strength of populism is its simple message that ‘the people’ are traduced by an ‘elite’ linked to ‘foreign’ interlopers. That’s also its weakness.
With the post-Maastricht fiscal rules in abeyance due to the pandemic, it’s time to address their fundamental flaws.
Global climate commitments will not amount to much without the institutional foundation the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
The globalisation of service work may not bring the major job losses feared—but it could weaken workers’ power significantly.