National schemes sparing consumers the worst impact of soaring prices are no substitute for the EU redefining electricity as a public good.
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Germany’s traffic-light coalition: green light or stuck on amber?
Peter Bofinger recognises the compromises necessary for a three-party government but regrets the lack of vision to face a decade of huge challenges.
Can Xi Jinping defeat three stubborn modern inequalities?
Branko Milanovic argues that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ is replicating United States inequalities.
A new global economic consensus
The pandemic has highlighted the deficiencies of economic deregulation and market liberalisation and a new policy-making paradigm is emerging.
Politics
Andersson’s agenda
Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
Towards gender-parity democracy
It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
Putin, pugilism and pusillanimity
Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.
Economy
Reimagining care
Many regard caring for the Earth and others as a means to an end. Everything changes if we view care as an essential set of relationships.
Raising the resources to open the European sluice-gates
The growing challenges facing Europe, beyond recovery from the pandemic, require a budget to match.
Reversing the procurement race to the bottom
Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.
Society
Women in union leadership—not seeing the wood for the trees?
The feminisation of trade unions is percolating to the upper echelons. But organisational cultures still work against women taking leading roles.
How it feels to be a rank outsider
Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
On the way to a European digital public sphere
A European digital public sphere need not be constructed de novo. Many elements already exist to be cohered.
Ecology
The right institutions for the climate transition
Global climate commitments will not amount to much without the institutional foundation the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
Fixing climate finance
Finance was at the heart of the COP26 rupture between developed and developing countries—it’s time for a new approach.
How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape
After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.
