“We are the people.” Like other right-wing populists across Europe, Germany’s Pegida is the latest to advance this Manichean view of societal change. The ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of…
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Inequality is back at the centre of the public discourse. Is this good or bad news for the European Union? Most contributions to this Social Europe 2019 series suggest the…
The centrality of market mechanisms to the European Commission’s climate package poses big questions as to its effectiveness and distributional impact.
As inflation has re-emerged, so have calls for general monetary tightening.
Ghost tickets, surge pricing, and resale fees reveal how football’s biggest event now profits from its own fans.
Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.
Trump’s personality cult follows a well-worn historical playbook — but his pathological narcissism ensures he cannot deploy it effectively.
The pandemic has deepened gender disparities. Central banks must recognise they have a role to play in reversing these trends.
Nearly 96 per cent of Montenegro’s businesses are micro enterprises, and Europe’s AI evidence base barely sees them.
The European Commission continues to talk about robust recovery, but with wages falling or stagnating, many people in Europe are worse off than they were a decade ago. The European…
After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.
On 18 May 2014, Swiss voters clearly rejected the popular initiative for the introduction of a statutory national minimum wage of CHF 4000 per month respectively CHF 22 (Euro 18)…
‘A world-class place to live and work.’ That is how President Juncker described Europe at the summit to formally proclaim the EU Pillar of Social Rights in Gothenburg last month.…
Jair Bolsonaro will be President of Brazil. A homophobic soldier with authoritarian excesses, who has scorned democratic mechanisms and threatened his political rivals, will lead the greatest regional power in…
It has been pretty clear since at least the spring of this year that the ECB was keen to see the euro weakening. At the time the euro stood near…
Instagram, a photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook, recently caved in to a demand by the Russian government that it remove posts by opposition leader Alexey Navalny alleging misconduct on the…
Achieving the right to disconnect is becoming a test case of the European Union’s commitment to social dialogue.