Europe's Green Jobs Crisis: Why Slow Decarbonisation Threatens Employment More Than Climate Action
Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.| Social Europe
Integrating sustainable finance standards into central bank operations would align market incentives and strengthen the eurozone's climate resilience.| Social Europe
Europe's fragmented approach to industrial strategy undermines its ability to compete with China and the United States.| Social Europe
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.| Social Europe
Europe's twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.| Social Europe
Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.| Social Europe
The EU's industrial ambitions hinge on transforming extractive relationships into sustainable partnerships with resource-rich nations.| Social Europe
Germany’s wage commission sets a new course, linking pay floor to EU benchmark after years of modest rises.| Social Europe
As fossil fuel dependency threatens sovereignty, the EU's fragmented response deepens existing inequalities.| Social Europe
The European Union must pursue robust industrial policies to counter technological dependencies and safeguard its future prosperity and stability.| Social Europe
Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia’s first Prime Minister, offers a forgotten blueprint for ethical leadership and democratic resilience in an age of performative politics.| Social Europe
Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.| Social Europe
Despite past failures, growing public support and recent international initiatives offer Copenhagen an opportunity to push for wealth taxation.| Social Europe
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The European Union faces an existential choice: succumb to economic nationalism or forge a new transatlantic order.| Social Europe
The European Trade Union Confederation is urgently calling for a new directive to protect workers from the escalating dangers of extreme heat.| Social Europe
Bo Rothstein is Senior Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.| Social Europe
Guido Montani is professor of international political economy at the University of Pavia. He is a former president of the European Federalist Movement in Italy. He founded in 1987, in Ventotene, the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies. His latest book is Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Europe and the New International Order (Routledge, 2024).| Social Europe
President Christine Lagarde's recent proposal signals a pivotal shift, aiming to elevate the euro's international standing and bolster European foreign policy independence.| Social Europe
Liberalism’s core class is under siege—can the liberal order survive the global backlash against its institutional power?| Social Europe
Trump’s radical tax vision could dismantle the IRS, reshape global inequality—and fuel a new economic war.| Social Europe
As migration policy reaches a crucial juncture, trade unions in Europe are challenged to expand solidarity-based strategies amidst intensifying crackdowns.| Social Europe
Katharina Pistor is professor of comparative law at Columbia Law School. She is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality.| Social Europe
As extremists exploit democracy’s freedoms, should constitutions strike back—or always leave judgment to the ballot box?| Social Europe
American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.| Social Europe
Our mission is to strengthen democracy by discussing solutions to the most pressing political, economic and social issues of our time.| Social Europe
Christine Lagarde seeks a greater international role for the euro, but Europe's economic realities present a complex challenge.| Social Europe
Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.| Social Europe
Peter Bofinger is professor of economics at Würzburg University and a former member of the German Council of Economic Experts.| Social Europe
Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, and economic growth.| Social Europe
As democracy falters, voters turn to populists. Can innovation save democracy from its outdated frameworks?| Social Europe
Whatever the legal determination, Israel already faces a symbolic reversal in the claim of 'genocide' against it in The Hague.| Social Europe
Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.| Social Europe
