Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.
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After almost a decade, EU-wide inequality finally regained its previous low of 2009 due to relatively strong growth in the poorer member states between the Baltic and the Balkans.
Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.
Official EU statistics mask the alarming extent of poverty and inequality in Europe. Despite slight recent easing, its dangerous scale threatens Europe’s social and political cohesion.
The new European Commission company mobility package is unbalanced. It aims at establishing European rules for business mobility in three areas: company conversions, mergers and divisions (corporate break-ups). On one…
Progressive ideas can prevail in a democracy, Sheri Berman writes—but only if they are pitched in universal terms.
Between 2017 and 2019, income disparities in Europe decreased. The pandemic stopped that decline.
Progressives have been too slow to appreciate the attack on reproductive rights in eastern Europe and the US.
A failed initiative to advance democracy at work nevertheless contains lessons for how to pursue the cause.
As fossil fuel dependency threatens sovereignty, the EU’s fragmented response deepens existing inequalities.
Most discussion of inequality in Europe is confined to individual member states. Aggregating incomes across the EU, however, presents a sobering picture.
The fossil-fuel industry has been revealed to have invested vast resources in lobbying EU institutions.
From $100,000 work visas to million-dollar “gold cards,” Trump turns government services into transactions for the highest bidder.
A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?
Inequality within member states has become a much debated and researched issue over the last decade (see OECD here and here). Reducing the inequality between member states (i.e. convergence) is…
EU social policy measures outputs efficiently — but the lived experience of its supposed beneficiaries tells a very different story.