Europe needs a new Youth Guarantee
The Youth Guarantee has failed to deliver on its promise. The deepening economic crisis makes a well-functioning guarantee even more imperative.
politics, economy and employment & labour

The Youth Guarantee has failed to deliver on its promise. The deepening economic crisis makes a well-functioning guarantee even more imperative.

by Peter Bofinger on
Peter Bofinger warns especially German inflation-phobes that deflation is a greater downside risk in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Public health should be recognised as a public good, whose provision, beyond the pandemic, requires a new European agency.

by Lisa Pelling on
Most commentary on the Covid-19 death toll in Sweden has been on the absence of lockdown, yet privatisation and precarity in eldercare should really be in the spotlight.

by Valerio Alfonso Bruno on
The pandemic has brought science and expertise to the fore in the public sphere, as an anchor of trust—and put the populists on the back foot.

by Selin Sayek Böke on
The coronavirus crisis demands a regulatory framework for the application of AI to protect public health without jeopardising human rights.

by John Evans on
Governments must learn from the financial crisis if they are not to repeat the errors of the recovery from it.

by Stefanie Börner on
The economic crisis induced by Covid-19 has revealed the breaking points of the conservative welfare state. It is time for a reorientation.

by Giulio Di Blasi on
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the essential role of migration in a globalised economy. The recovery must not be jeopardised by self-harming xenophobia.

by Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme and Katherine Trebeck on
Countries with female leaders have suffered one-sixth as many Covid-19 deaths as those led by men and will recover sooner from recession.

Our way of life as we knew it won’t return, but will the ‘new normality’ herald a common European future?

Gig workers already bore most of the risk associated with their work. And their platforms haven’t been keen to mitigate it during the crisis.
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