The debt hawks are flapping their wings
Post-pandemic Europe, Adam Tooze writes, can’t entertain a return to pre-crisis fiscal rules.
Does it take a pandemic to relaunch European social dialogue?
One of the unwitting effects of the crisis has been to remake the case for dialogue between social partners to solve major problems.
Work harder: the Porto Social Summit’s call to Europe’s welfare states
Welfare states are having to run harder to stand still. They need to act in mutual support to win the race against inequality and poverty.
What should a female career and family structure post-pandemic look like?
The pandemic threatens to exacerbate gender inequalities and reinforce the association between women and unpaid care—unless contrary action is taken.
Insecure in work, vulnerable to infection
Research by the British TUC has highlighted how the many insecure workers in the UK have been exposed to disproportionate Covid-19 risk.
Next steps for a people’s vaccine
Ending the pandemic requires not only an intellectual-property rights waiver but scaling up knowledge transfer and public production of vaccine supplies.
Hard Labour
Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way.
A shot in the arm
The European Union needs to raise its vaccination target and bring it forward. The good news is it can.
Decentralising and democratising while reforming European economic governance
The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to address how EU governance can be refitted to end the crisis of legitimacy.
The Social Summit—and beyond
Concrete commitments must follow today’s Social Summit in Porto if the promise of a social Europe is to be realised.
Pay your taxes where your profit is
The long-simmering demand that multinationals provide country-by-country reporting of their tax payments is coming to a dénouement.
What price a life?
Kate Pickett widens the panorama from the all-consuming coverage in Britain of the death of Prince Philip to ask why human lives and labours are so differentially valued.
Why we need gender-responsive central banking
The pandemic has deepened gender disparities. Central banks must recognise they have a role to play in reversing these trends.
Public procurement: ending the race to the bottom on workers’ conditions
On International Workers’ Memorial Day, it’s worth remembering that when workers don’t have a say they may lose more than their voice.
Covid-19 in India—profits before people
Jayati Ghosh explains why more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported in India daily—and what that says about our world.
Erdoğan is feeling the heat
Growing economic pains and a more united opposition threaten the Turkish president's grip. His regime resorts to ever more repression.
Good news for gender equality as we exit the Covid-19 crisis?
The pandemic has had differential impacts on women. Raised consciousness about them must be applied to advance gender equality in recovery measures.