There is no recovery without migration
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the essential role of migration in a globalised economy. The recovery must not be jeopardised by self-harming xenophobia.
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the essential role of migration in a globalised economy. The recovery must not be jeopardised by self-harming xenophobia.
Countries with female leaders have suffered one-sixth as many Covid-19 deaths as those led by men and will recover sooner from recession.
Gig workers already bore most of the risk associated with their work. And their platforms haven’t been keen to mitigate it during the crisis.
Our way of life as we knew it won’t return, but will the ‘new normality’ herald a common European future?
The short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on immigrant workers depend on policies which vary substantially across western-European countries.
Philip Heimberger, Maximilian Krahé, Dominic Ponattu and Jens van 't Klooster
Economic theory explains why a single European currency didn’t bring geographical convergence—but only political action can realise that.
It is no coincidence that countries with mission-driven governments have fared better in the Covid-19 crisis than those beholden to the cult of efficiency.
After years of ‘public bad, private good’ ideology in healthcare, the shock of the coronavirus calls for a post-crisis European strategy to advance public health.
Young people are anxious about the effects of the crisis yet also more trusting in the European Union—an asset which should not be squandered.
A mass online survey across the continent has found Europeans reeling from the coronavirus crisis—and losing trust in their leaders’ ability to manage it.
The coming economic emergency demands an emergency boost to demand, via an unconditional monthly payment for its duration.
Years of pre-crisis adhesion to ‘new public management’ in health policy have seen public provision eroded. Now is an opportunity to change course.
Amid the accelerated scientific quest for a vaccine against the coronavirus, crucial ethical and social questions have not yet been addressed.
Emergence from the coronavirus crisis cannot be to ‘business as usual’ but must urgently open a transition to socio-environmental sustainability.
EU leaders must not behave like generals fighting the last war. If the Recovery Fund is to be adequate to the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, this time must be different.
There can be no return to ‘business as usual’ after the crisis: the ‘new normal’ must entail a profound political and social transformation.
Europe must look beyond keeping companies on life support and staunching national debts to a continent-wide reconstruction driven by public investment.
The expansion of free time during the crisis could lead to a reassessment of leisure and a revalorised public sphere.
If once a peace project, the mission for Europe today is a safe ecological transition—the Green Deal the antidote to a malaise apparent long before the pandemic.
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for transnational collaboration to produce socially useful goods—an idea aerospace workers in the UK hatched decades ago.
We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits.