The rush to “simplify” sustainability reporting ignores the lessons of 2008 and imperils Europe’s financial system.
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Trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining.
From Hegseth’s crusader tattoos to Thiel’s apocalyptic sermons, MAGA is fusing Christianity with raw political power.
Poverty was earlier a key (but not exclusive) issue for the international community, largely developing countries (see here) but since then the 2008 crisis has drastically affected the standard of…
The EU’s Pay Transparency Directive offers a powerful tool for equality, but only if member states implement it with rigour and ambition.
The financial and Eurozone crises are now fading into memory. Firm growth has returned to Europe. Jobs are being created and new companies formed. Things should be looking up at…
Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., and Sahra Wagenknecht are crossing political lines—are they chasing headlines or revealing deeper political divides?
Inequality and the climate crisis go hand in hand, Lisa Pelling writes. So do the alternatives.
Branko Milanovic, what is your diagnosis of global inequality as it stands and where do we stand in historical terms? Yes, let me start maybe with the historical terms first.…
Can the trend to remote work spurred by the pandemic be associated with lower greenhouse-gas emissions? It depends.
The Financial Times has a useful background article on the debate about pension reforms in Greece, one of the main sticking points in the current showdown, which makes a number…
Since the 1940s, the Left in most western European countries has relied on a combination of four strategies to tackle inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth. Firstly, the…
After a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which anti-fascist campaigner Heather Heyer was killed, and many others injured, US President Donald Trump notoriously blamed “both sides” for the violence.…
The decarbonisation of Europe must be accelerated—which requires a new European social model.
Wages grew and wage inequality fell in most EU countries in 2015. Germany is not one of the countries where wages rose most but it did have the largest reduction…
Visa rules need an overhaul to facilitate global co-operation in a runaway world, Ankita Anand writes.
Say it quietly, but Germany has learnt the lessons of Keynes. Would that others had done so too.