Trade unions are key to a safe exit from the pandemic
There can be no return to ‘business as usual’ after the crisis: the ‘new normal’ must entail a profound political and social transformation.
politics, economy and employment & labour

by Luca Visentini on
There can be no return to ‘business as usual’ after the crisis: the ‘new normal’ must entail a profound political and social transformation.

The expansion of free time during the crisis could lead to a reassessment of leisure and a revalorised public sphere.

by Shane Markowitz on
If once a peace project, the mission for Europe today is a safe ecological transition—the Green Deal the antidote to a malaise apparent long before the pandemic.

by Meadhbh Bolger on
We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits.

by Jonathan Feldman on
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for transnational collaboration to produce socially useful goods—an idea aerospace workers in the UK hatched decades ago.

by Birgit Van Hout on
A paradigm shift in national and EU Roma strategies is more urgent than ever.

by Marja Bijl on
The gender dimension of the coronavirus crisis is obvious when seen through a lens of gender inequality. Which leaves it invisible to many.

by Sevasti Chatzopoulou on
How governments have addressed the pandemic has reflected different levels of social trust—which will have consequences for its aftermath.

by Peter Bofinger on
Peter Bofinger argues that additional loans of inadequate amount do not add up to a rescue package which can save Europe from the coronavirus crisis.

by Chiara Benassi on
On International Workers’ Day, it is important to recall the crucial role played by unions in protecting the workforce, especially at times of crisis.

The coronavirus crisis has led many to revalue human life. But not, it seems, when the lives are of migrants.

by Philippe Pochet on
What kind of Europe will take shape after the coronavirus crisis? Four scenarios, widely varying in their social and ecological consequences, are possible.
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