It is hard to believe that it is any coincidence that by far the most economically unequal large country in the European Union, the UK, was the one that narrowly…
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Responses to the pandemic have upended the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to macroeconomic policies engendering widening inequality.
The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet…
A ‘Draghi light’ agenda of deregulation risks social repression — but a bolder path rooted in Europe’s social democratic tradition offers a credible alternative.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a website collating the sources of data on inequality across the European Union and exploring evidence-based policy prescriptions? Now there is.
A recent EU survey exposes the chasm between headline economic data and the financial reality confronting households across Europe.
Populisms and Technocracies: mastering the art of evoking fears In Europe, home to one of the most ambitious political and institutional experiments in recent history, the European Union, populist movements…
Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.
For Branko Milanovic the limits of Europe are set by the inequality successive EU enlargements have enhanced.
Trump uses far-right activist’s killing to justify violence while portraying himself as victim.
Equality of opportunity and upward social mobility are important aspects of the European social model. Until quite recently concerns about rising inequalities were often countered by assurances about protecting social…
“A flat tax is for a flat earth”: This was my answer to Grzegorz Kolodko, Poland’s Minister of Finance and First Deputy Premier for the Economy (1994-97 and 2002-03), when…
Let me start by enquiring about the importance assumed by inequality in the public debate during these last years. As we know, inequality has been marginalised both in academia and…
Growing inequality between eurozone members is one of the least welcome legacies of the euro- and sovereign debt crisis. The idea that the less well-off member states would catch up…
Europe’s industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.
The Meloni government in Italy is betting everything on radical and polarising constitutional reforms.
In the years before the financial crisis of 2008, there was a significant reduction in overall EU wage inequality, driven by economic convergence between rich and poor Member States. The…