A decade of evidence shows Europe’s welfare state drives growth – making calls to cut it for rearmament self-defeating.
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This month the European Union will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty, the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community. There certainly is much to celebrate.…
The temptation to cut welfare expenditures to reduce deficits inflated by the pandemic must be resisted.
When rural schools experiment with artificial intelligence, they reveal whether technology serves the many or the few.
If the recent state elections in Bavaria and Hesse tell us anything at all, they simply provide three instructive lessons for Germany’s political elite. The electorate is tired with establishment…
Today Europe is boredom… it is submerged by numbers and without soul. As long as Europe cares more about fishing rights than human beings swimming in our sea’s Europe has…
Why Europe must embrace an “abundance agenda” to deliver results, restore trust, and counter rising populism.
US plans to bankroll MAGA-aligned think tanks in Europe demand a forceful counterhegemonic response from democratic forces.
EU-wide income inequality declined notably prior to 2008, driven by a strong process of income convergence between European countries. The Great Recession broke this trend. After 2008, income convergence has…
Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.
When founded in 1957, the then European Economic Community comprised six relative prosperous countries, albeit including a very poor region, the Italian Mezzogiorno. With the first enlargement in 1972, poor…
Despite the economic recovery of recent years, persistent social imbalances—such as those affecting women and young people—must be taken into account in the debate on Europe’s future.
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
The Great Recession depressed real income levels across European countries. But the impact was very unequal across countries and income groups. Countries in the European periphery have been more affected…
Inter-firm differences are not only widening wage gaps but also threaten wider social division among workers.
We talk a lot about inequality but the data we rely on is subject to substantial errors since much income and wealth goes unmeasured and is never seen by the…
We seem to be living in an accelerated age of revolutionary technological breakthroughs. Barely a day passes without the announcement of some major new development in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digitization,…