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Youth Guarantee

Europe needs a new Youth Guarantee

by Dennis Tamesberger and Johann Bacher on 16th June 2020

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

EU fiscal framework, fiscal rules, Maastricht rules, Stability and Growth Pact

The Covid-19 crisis: inflationary or deflationary?

by Peter Bofinger on 15th June 2020

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

public health, public goods

A European public-health facility

by Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Francesco Saraceno on 11th June 2020

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

eldercare, Sweden

Sweden, the pandemic and precarious working conditions

by Lisa Pelling on 10th June 2020

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.

liberal world order

Science and politics: a new alliance?

by Valerio Alfonso Bruno on 9th June 2020

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.

AI and healthcare

Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemic

by Selin Sayek Böke on 5th June 2020

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

recovery

A global economy in uncharted waters

by John Evans on 3rd June 2020

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

European welfare state

Lessons from the pandemic for the conservative welfare state

by Stefanie Börner on 2nd June 2020

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

migration

There is no recovery without migration

by Giulio Di Blasi on 2nd June 2020

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.

female leaders, women in power

Women in power: it’s a matter of life and death

by Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme and Katherine Trebeck on 1st June 2020

Countries with female leaders have suffered one-sixth as many Covid-19 deaths as those led by men and will recover sooner from recession.

new normality

For a new European ‘normality’

by Javier López and Jo Ritzen on 28th May 2020

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

labour platforms

Covid-19: who will protect gig workers, if not platforms?

by Funda Ustek-Spilda, Richard Heeks and Mark Graham on 28th May 2020

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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Social Europe Publishing book

The Brexit endgame is upon us: deal or no deal, the transition period will end on January 1st. With a pandemic raging, for those countries most affected by Brexit the end of the transition could not come at a worse time. Yet, might the UK's withdrawal be a blessing in disguise? With its biggest veto player gone, might the European Pillar of Social Rights take centre stage? This book brings together leading experts in European politics and policy to examine social citizenship rights across the European continent in the wake of Brexit. Will member states see an enhanced social Europe or a race to the bottom?

'This book correctly emphasises the need to place the future of social rights in Europe front and centre in the post-Brexit debate, to move on from the economistic bias that has obscured our vision of a progressive social Europe.' Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland


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The macroeconomic effects of the EU recovery and resilience facility

This policy brief analyses the macroeconomic effects of the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). We present the basics of the RRF and then use the macroeconometric multi-country model NiGEM to analyse the facility's macroeconomic effects. The simulations show, first, that if the funds are in fact used to finance additional public investment (as intended), public capital stocks throughout the EU will increase markedly during the time of the RRF. Secondly, in some especially hard-hit southern European countries, the RRF would offset a significant share of the output lost during the pandemic. Thirdly, as gains in GDP due to the RRF will be much stronger in (poorer) southern and eastern European countries, the RRF has the potential to reduce economic divergence. Finally, and in direct consequence of the increased GDP, the RRF will lead to lower public debt ratios—between 2.0 and 4.4 percentage points below baseline for southern European countries in 2023.


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Benchmarking Working Europe 2020

A virus is haunting Europe. This year’s 20th anniversary issue of our flagship publication Benchmarking Working Europe brings to a growing audience of trade unionists, industrial relations specialists and policy-makers a warning: besides SARS-CoV-2, ‘austerity’ is the other nefarious agent from which workers, and Europe as a whole, need to be protected in the months and years ahead. Just as the scientific community appears on the verge of producing one or more effective and affordable vaccines that could generate widespread immunity against SARS-CoV-2, however, policy-makers, at both national and European levels, are now approaching this challenging juncture in a way that departs from the austerity-driven responses deployed a decade ago, in the aftermath of the previous crisis. It is particularly apt for the 20th anniversary issue of Benchmarking, a publication that has allowed the ETUI and the ETUC to contribute to key European debates, to set out our case for a socially responsive and ecologically sustainable road out of the Covid-19 crisis.


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Industrial relations: developments 2015-2019

Eurofound has monitored and analysed developments in industrial relations systems at EU level and in EU member states for over 40 years. This new flagship report provides an overview of developments in industrial relations and social dialogue in the years immediately prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Findings are placed in the context of the key developments in EU policy affecting employment, working conditions and social policy, and linked to the work done by social partners—as well as public authorities—at European and national levels.


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Read FEPS Covid Response Papers

In this moment, more than ever, policy-making requires support and ideas to design further responses that can meet the scale of the problem. FEPS contributes to this reflection with policy ideas, analysis of the different proposals and open reflections with the new FEPS Covid Response Papers series and the FEPS Covid Response Webinars. The latest FEPS Covid Response Paper by the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, 'Recovering from the pandemic: an appraisal of lessons learned', provides an overview of the failures and successes in dealing with Covid-19 and its economic aftermath. Among the authors: Lodewijk Asscher, László Andor, Estrella Durá, Daniela Gabor, Amandine Crespy, Alberto Botta, Francesco Corti, and many more.


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