As the world reels from the Brexit shock, it is dawning on economists and policymakers that they severely underestimated the political fragility of the current form of globalization. The popular…
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A specter is haunting the world economy – the specter of job-killing technology. How this challenge is met will determine the fate of the world’s market economies and democratic polities,…
James Downes and Edward Chan (Social Europe, 29 June) have written of the debacle of the social democratic Left in Europe and echoed others such as Sheri Berman who has…
Austerity packages reduce approval, drive protests, and raise the odds of a government crisis — especially in downturns.
In the eyes of its citizens the EU has become the patron of an unfair modernisation that benefits only a handful of people. It can only regain trust if and…
The most precarious group grew from two to 54 per cent of Italy’s platform workforce in three years.
The revised EU-Mercosur trade deal offers limited economic benefits for Europe, while its environmental provisions may undermine the bloc’s climate ambitions.
As Brazil approaches crucial elections, the country must confront deep structural challenges that have undermined democratic progress for decades.
Austerity is back—driven by politics, not economics. From the UK to Argentina and the US, the stakes are high.
Sanna Marin is the right person to preside over the European Council. But would she want to?
Only 4.9 per cent of Spaniards collect rent, yet multi-property landlords own over half the homes individuals let.
Since Berlusconi’s death, the media have focused on his persona—not Berlusconism and its legacy.
The EU-Mercosur agreement, on which negotiations ended a year ago, awaits signing and ratification. They should be in no rush.
What stops public debt being monetised to avoid the pain of prolonged austerity after the pandemic? An obsolete economic theory of ‘credibility’.
Forgotten by time and abandoned by most of its younger generation, the old village of Riace in Calabria, clinging to the steep hillsides above the Ionian Sea, would be unknown…
Five years among the men at Turin’s factory wall reveal what 44 million furlough hours conceal.
The crisis of political debate within contemporary democracies Exactly sixty years ago, in 1958, Hannah Arendt published The Human Condition. In her philosophical masterpiece, Arendt indicated that the “Vita Activa”,…