Measuring the Right Things Reveals a Stronger Europe
Magalí Brosio and Enrico Giovannini
The EU’s wellbeing index rose 9.5 points between 2010 and 2023, against 1.2 for the United States.
Economy
Analysis and debate on the European economy: growth and investment, fiscal and monetary policy, trade, industry and inequality.
The EU Needs Dedicated Capacity to Track AI’s Impact on Jobs
Samuel Goodger and Dora Wierzbicka
A Brussels workshop ranked the signals Europe must track, from junior vacancies to the labour share of GDP.
Workers Are Not Europe’s Cost Problem
Profits have grown almost twice as fast as pay since 2000, yet workers are told to work longer.
Europe’s Restraint Makes Trump’s Tariffs Pay
Tariff revenue is bankrolling American tax cuts, and Europe is quietly footing the bill.
AI Now Scores Every Call, and Workers Cannot See the Rules
Elisa Pannini and Chiara Benassi
Union reps say AI sentiment scores can swing variable pay by up to 40 per cent.
Platform Work in Italy Has Become a Trap for the Vulnerable
Valeria Cirillo, Dario Guarascio, Fosca Giannotti, Clara Punzi and Roberto Pellungrini
The most precarious group grew from two to 54 per cent of Italy’s platform workforce in three years.
Europe’s Circular Economy Act Will Fail Without Workers at Its Heart
Judith Kirton-Darling and Jan Willem Goudriaan
Two union leaders warn that waste, repair and recycling jobs risk becoming Europe’s next low-pay, high-hazard market.
Europe’s €2 Trillion Budget Buys Less Investment, Not More
Sonja Hennen and Dominika Biegon
Once NextGenerationEU expires, the EU’s real fiscal capacity falls, leaving a €300 billion annual investment gap.
Fair Labour Mobility Must Mean Fair for Workers
Some 950,000 Europeans move to another member state each year, and many land in jobs beneath their qualifications.
How I Became a Manufacturing Skeptic
The industrialization-led growth model is faltering. Developing economies’ best hope now lies in raising productivity across labour-absorbing services.
Europe’s Largest Companies Now Lend More Than They Invest
Europe drowns in cheap capital yet starves for investment — because its biggest firms now lend rather than build.
The EU Trades One Gas Dependence for Another
The bloc has swapped Russian pipelines for American tankers — without breaking its addiction to imported fossil fuels.
A New Economics for the 21st Century
Mariana Mazzucato and Lara Merling
By coming out in favor of industrial policy after many decades of advising against government intervention in the economy, the World Bank has taken an important step.
Trump’s Tragedy of Errors
Trump’s unchecked Iran war is wrecking supply chains, reigniting inflation, and deepening a global affordability crisis.
China’s Overcapacity Problem Is Europe’s Problem Too — But Not in the Way You Might Think
Bernhard Tröster, Simela Papatheophilou and Werner Raza
As Beijing acknowledges its own overcapacity problem, new research reveals a more complex and more enduring threat to European manufacturing.
The World Needs an Oil Buyers’ Club
Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk
As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor.