Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Our shrinking economic toolkitssocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster For four decades, mainstream economists and policymakers have been wedded to fixed dogmas. Their blind belief in fiscal discipline threatens the very …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The European Green Deal and the international Rubiconsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster A European Green Deal faces not only internal challenges: its success depends on the construction of a wider global order. In her opening statement to …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News European economic democracy: a path out of the crisissocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster A genuinely social Europe must have economic democracy rather than rely only on market mechanisms. The crisis of purpose in European social democracy …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The Goulard case—a rap on the knuckles for Emmanuel Macronsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster The rejection by the European Parliament of Slyvie Goulard as French commissioner showed that ‘it’s France’ is not a sufficient excuse for special …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeBalkans Can Europe help the Balkans keep its young emigrants?socialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster High emigration rates are doing massive damage to the prospects of the western Balkans—would a stronger EU perspective reverse this outflow? At a …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean Union Western Balkans need accession-talks signal from EUsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Access for the states concerned, most immediately for North Macedonia and Albania, would be many years off—but the symbolism is important. This week …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeFacebook Is it time to ban political advertising on Facebook?socialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Karin Pettersson argues that ‘free speech’ is not a licence for politicians relying on rage to lie, and for such lies to be amplified by ‘social …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeIreland Ireland’s recovery: from bust to buoyancy … to Brexit?socialeurope.eu - Paul Sweeney If procyclical domestic policies inflated Ireland’s economic bubble, procyclical austerity demanded by the troika which bailed it out makes Ireland’s …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The limits of the nationalist leftsocialeurope.eu - Jon Bloomfield The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.The left remains in the doldrums across Europe. There is the odd …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Wellbeing: an economy that works for children?socialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster A Child Guarantee can be a second launchpad for investing in children. The ‘economy of wellbeing’ is a bright new narrative which the Finnish EU …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Time to act to leave no child behindsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Children without or at risk of losing parental care represent a stain on Europe’s moral conscience. One in ten children worldwide lives without the …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeIcon version of the Flipboard logoEuropean News Preventing digital feudalismsocialeurope.eu - Mariana Mazzucato Reforming the digital economy so that it serves collective ends is the defining economic challenge of our time.The use and abuse of data by Facebook …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News A Green New Deal beyond growthsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster A genuine European Green New Deal must place social justice and ecological protection ahead of fiscal discipline and economic growth. Following a …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeGreen New Deal A novel European Green New Deal to tackle climate changesocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Support has been surging on both sides of the Atlantic for the idea of a Green New Deal. Time to turn it into action, and jobs, on the ground. The …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The parliamentary election in Poland—the future at stakesocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Whether the coming election in Poland will consolidate the monopoly of the national-conservative PiS or favour a more pluralist balance of power, it …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeSocialism Portuguese elections: Socialists expected to return to power but without a majoritysocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster The Portuguese governmental ‘contraption’ has turned out to be surprisingly enduring—so much so that it may face another term. There is little …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Ireland’s route from boom to bubble to bustsocialeurope.eu - Paul Sweeney Ireland’s volatile economic path of recent decades has wider European policy implications. Part one: the ‘Celtic Tiger’ and its demiseThe ‘Celtic …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Should we worry about income gaps within or between countries?socialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster The rise of populist nationalism throughout the west has been fuelled partly by a clash between the objectives of equity in rich countries and higher …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The long and winding road to respecting workers’ rights in supply chainssocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster The US Business Roundtable statement in favour of stakeholder rather than shareholder capitalism has opened the question of corporate …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Grosse Koalition, small Klimapaketsocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster Much was expected of the new climate package negotiated by the grand-coalition government in Berlin. Less was delivered. In Germany Friday September …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News German rebalancing—out of exit optionssocialeurope.eu - Caroline Marie Lancaster The consensus against German fiscal rebalancing is cracking—because the export demand which allowed it long to be avoided is looking shaky. The …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Why the radical right is no longer the exclusive domain of older, male voterssocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik The typical radical-right voter is often assumed to be older and male, with conservative views on women’s and LGBT rights—an assumption which should …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Open letter to my German friends about the ECB policysocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik Guillaume Duval argues that Germany can see the end of ECB quantitative easing—if only it stops imposing austerity on the eurozone. On September 12th, …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeIcon version of the Flipboard logoEuropean News Top of Lagarde’s ECB to-do list: stop QE and democratise monetary policysocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik If Christine Lagarde is serious about greening the European Central Bank, she must not hide behind its mandate. The European Central Bank is at a …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Spitzenkandidaten, transnational lists and more Brussels-bubble ideassocialeurope.eu - Wolfgang Kowalsky The Spitzenkandidaten system was meant to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the European Parliament. But that wasn’t why more citizens voted in …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEurope The scramble for Europesocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik The European Union needs to lead the world towards a secure, multipolar future. If not, it will fall victim to the law of the political jungle. In …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News The downsides and dangers of economic determinismsocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik Economic determinism has appealed, at various times, to some on the left and on the right. Either way it avoids facing the choices politics …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeEuropean News Better working conditions, more predictable work—the new EU directivesocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik The EU directive on irregular work is a positive step but it struggles with the contradiction of protecting workers from the labour-market risks …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeClimate Time to act for climate justicesocialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik A ‘people’s summit’ in New York ahead of the official UN climate summit brings environmental and human-rights campaigners together in pursuit of …
Social Europeflipped into Social EuropeClimate From Fridays for Future to a global climate-justice unionism?socialeurope.eu - Dani Rodrik Since the social and ecological crises are so intertwined, a ‘climate-justice unionism’ is required to address them in a holistic way. The continuous …
