The four worlds of the social-ecological state
The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to update the European welfare state to a social-ecological state, able to socialise 21st-century ecological risks.
politics, economy and employment & labour

by Éloi Laurent on
The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to update the European welfare state to a social-ecological state, able to socialise 21st-century ecological risks.

Ensuring no one is left behind requires not just unprecedented collective investment but a very different approach to innovation.

The European Investment Bank and national development banks provide a framework through which a European Recovery Fund could work quickly and effectively.

by Karin Pettersson on
The coronavirus crisis is a social challenge, Karin Pettersson writes, which the formerly secure are now being reminded is hitting the poor hardest.

by Albena Azmanova on
Emergency action to enhance healthcare and unemployment insurance might signal a paradigm shift for the union from market integration to providing public goods.

by Patrick ten Brink on
Amid the coronavirus crisis, some are calling for a deferral of European ecological action. Yet unsustainable food systems are one source of new human diseases.

The lessons of necessity and solidarity learned during the pandemic must inform a transition to a just society within ecological limits in its aftermath.

by Carlo Spagnolo on
Decades of neoliberal inculcation have deprived the political class of the historical memory needed to derive the new Marshall plan today’s crisis demands.

by Brigitte Young on
The postwar German debt experience should inform a spirit of co-operation and goodwill today.

The coronavirus crisis has punched a hole in Europe’s safety nets. But they were already frayed and urgent repairs are needed.

by Pompeo Della Posta on
As the eurozone faces into a deep recession, a transparent prisoner’s dilemma is preventing it from stopping the slide.

by Branko Milanovic on
Branko Milanovic explores how the pandemic has highlighted China’s international responsibility and how such global ‘externalities’ are to be rendered accountable.
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