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Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page brings together Social Europe articles on the economy.

Control the vampire companies

Jayati Ghosh 23rd May 2022

Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.

Peace and trade—a new perspective

Gustav Horn 19th May 2022

The Ukraine crisis has shown not only that unlimited trade is impossible but also that it needs to be regulated by values.

Return to positive interest rates requires a safety net

Peter Bofinger 9th May 2022

Peter Bofinger explains how inflation in the eurozone can be tempered without jeopardising recovery.

The long shadow of market fundamentalism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato 5th May 2022

In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.

‘South working’: the future of remote work

Antonio Aloisi and Luisa Corazza 2nd May 2022

If remote working is no longer to be temporary, workers could revitalise previously ‘remote’ areas.

Occupational safety and health—a fundamental right

Ivan Williams Jimenez 28th April 2022

On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work, as every day, some 7,500 workers will die from its absence.

Covid-19 and safety at work—union dilemmas

Adrien Thomas, Nadja Dörflinger, Karel Yon and 1 more 28th April 2022

Unions have struggled with health-and-safety responses to Covid-19.

AI threatens to increase inequality

Per Molander 20th April 2022

The debate on AI has focused mainly on its potential effect on employment. The impact on equality should not however be missed.

A single market for the future

Philippe Pochet 19th April 2022

War in Ukraine, the climate challenge and the concept of strategic autonomy are paving the way for a new type of single market.

Artificial intelligence: filling the gaps

Aida Ponce Del Castillo 14th April 2022

Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers.

What to do with Russian oil and gas

Franz Nauschnigg 13th April 2022

The European Union should apply import tariffs, instead of imposing an embargo.

Co-determination at issue in Europe’s top court

Nora Back, Patrick Dury and Reiner Hoffmann 11th April 2022

Can companies dilute national worker-involvement rights by becoming European?

The ECB should not hike interest rates

Philipp Heimberger 5th April 2022

Europe’s central bank is under pressure to raise interest rates to counter rising inflation. It should resist it.

‘Post-work’ visions for 2030

Maria Mexi 31st March 2022

The future could realise the dream of Marx and Keynes for a society beyond work—or a populist nightmare of worklessness.

The home as office—what’s gender got to do with it?

Kalina Arabadjieva and Paula Franklin 30th March 2022

Rise of telework should dispel the notion that only work in the public sphere is, really, ‘work’.

Hungarian businesses as EU rentiers

Péter Bucsky 29th March 2022

Amid the impasse over its national recovery plan, a study has shown the very low effectiveness of EU funding in Hungary.

Fair pay for truck drivers

Martin Stuber and Susanne Wixforth 16th March 2022

The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to hold out a prospect of a single market that works for its mobile workers.

Europe’s agriculture and care—mistreated migrants

Shana Cohen, Gerry Mitchell and Liran Morav 9th March 2022

Informal migrant workers are denied basic social protection and the chance to integrate.

Taking the heat out of energy prices

Peter Bofinger 7th March 2022

Instead of higher interest rates, Peter Bofinger urges lower VAT on energy and temporary suspension of the CO2 trading system.  

Services, value chains and the global south

Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner 3rd March 2022

Insertion into global value chains in services is no hand-up panacea for the least-developed countries.

Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap

Kalina Arabadjieva and Wouter Zwysen 24th February 2022 1 Comment

Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.

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