Ensuring adequate minimum wages in an age of inflation
Minimum wages have risen across Europe this year. Inflation is eroding them.
Public services should not be the victims of inflation
On UN Public Service Day, many public-service workers and the services they provide remain needlessly impoverished.
Let’s count what really matters
Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP.
Why we are on Brussels’ streets
Tens of thousands of Belgian workers today demand better wages and purchasing power.
Working from a distance: remote or removed?
Remote work will outlast the pandemic. But workers must be inoculated against the risks.
Getting deglobalisation right
This year’s gathering of business and political elites in Davos recognised a basic truth—without reckoning with past mistakes.
Recovery and Resilience: stop-gap or sea-change?
The Recovery and Resilience Facility could remain a one-off crisis measure—or point to a permanent EU fiscal arrangement.
Control the vampire companies
Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.
Peace and trade—a new perspective
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 explains how inflation in the eurozone can be tempered without jeopardising recovery.
The long shadow of market fundamentalism
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
If remote working is no longer to be temporary, workers could revitalise previously ‘remote’ areas.
Occupational safety and health—a fundamental right
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
Unions have struggled with health-and-safety responses to Covid-19.
AI threatens to increase inequality
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
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
Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers.
What to do with Russian oil and gas
The European Union should apply import tariffs, instead of imposing an embargo.
Co-determination at issue in Europe’s top court
Can companies dilute national worker-involvement rights by becoming European?
The ECB should not hike interest rates
Europe’s central bank is under pressure to raise interest rates to counter rising inflation. It should resist it.
‘Post-work’ visions for 2030
The future could realise the dream of Marx and Keynes for a society beyond work—or a populist nightmare of worklessness.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 41
- Next Page »