The European Commission’s proposed EU Inc. corporate form promises startup-friendly simplicity but threatens worker participation, collective power, and Europe’s social model.
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Addressing economic inequality is key to restoring political participation and democratic legitimacy.
Europe’s poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.
Branko Milanovic asks whether we should continue to teach comparative economic systems to broaden students’ horizons, or if the global ubiquity of capitalism renders such historical study obsolete.
Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
What should Europe do about inequality? The start is to recognise some of its citizens are more equal than others.
The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.
The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.
Extreme wealth concentration across the EU undermines opportunity and security for millions while property ownership becomes increasingly unattainable.
After years of being sidelined in the European policy debate as labour markets recovered in the wake of the Great Recession, inequality is back on the agenda.
Can companies dilute national worker-involvement rights by becoming European?
The lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists sets out his political stall for the European Parliament elections in June.
Unconventional policies buttressed a decline in inequality and poverty in the EU. Renewed austerity might endanger it.
The French EU presidency provides an opportunity to advance a ‘developmentalist’ strategy for the green transition.
Despite EU commitments to equality, children at risk of poverty remain severely underrepresented in early childhood education programs.
The American model has produced rentier capitalism and functional illiteracy—Europe’s universities must return to their civilising mission.