debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
We know information technologies are broadening the channels of political participation (Obama’s election in 2008, the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement, Occupy Wall Street, etc.). What is less apparent —and I would argue even more consequential— is the fact they are restructuring the economic fabric of societies —particularly in advanced economies. The political effects [...]
Professor Paul De Grauwe, London School of Economics and Political Science, discusses the Eurozone crisis and austerity with Social Europe Journal.
Having declined to meet him when he was the mere challenger for President of France, UK Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly used his first official meeting with Francois Hollande to tell him not to pursue the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) that both Hollande and his predecessor Nicholas Sarkozy support. It is another example of Britain [...]
This piece reports on recent research around the relationship between trade unions and internationalisation in the context of globalisation. It argues for a more open, less pessimistic view than the dominant one. This view builds on the experiences of the 1970s and is cognisant of the depth of the current crisis. Transnationalism Unions and the [...]
Voters in Greece, France and the United Kingdom have sent a clear signal in the past month that they want governments to give priority to jobs and opportunities as well as reducing deficits and debt. Lord Nicholas Stern argues that unleashing the low-carbon economy could achieve these goals. Framed by credible and stable policies, the European Union [...]
This is a brief presentation of the latest developments of youth unemployment in Bulgaria. It aims to address whether or not the recent trends are a continuation of the impacts of the economic crisis on youth participation in labour markets. The only data used is from the Bulgarian National Statistics Institute Labor Force Survey (NSI [...]
While the punters speculate on the outcome of the Greek election on 17 June, in truth ‘Grexit’ has already happened. Because of massive withdrawals from the Greek banking system, the country is on emergency life support from the ECB. First, following the inconclusive May elections, the ‘troika’ decided that it would postpone the €48bn recapitalisation [...]
Sian Jones, policy coordinator of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) talk to Social Europe Journal about the youth unemployment crisis in Europe. This interview is part of a project on youth unemployment in Europe run by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Social Europe Journal
Europe’s situation is serious – very serious. Who would have thought that British Prime Minister David Cameron would call on eurozone governments to muster the courage to create a fiscal union (with a common budget and tax policy and jointly guaranteed public debt)? And Cameron also argues that deeper political integration is the only way [...]
Sometime this European summer the Greek government will default on its euro debts and attempt to manage an exit from the common currency. This will not occur because people want it (though some do), nor because it is the wisest policy (it is not). Fault and exit will occur because they cannot be prevented. This [...]
Austerity and economic stagnation during the recent crisis, mainly during the 2010-2012 period, has strongly affected all Greek youths, independent of gender, educational status or regional concentration. Before the crisis there were traces of different patterns of youth unemployment by region and gender in relation to the economic specialization across the country. These patterns were [...]
Yong June, the creator and editor-in-chief of Indigo, one of the most ambitious, iconoclastic and lively periodicals dedicated to the critical scrutiny of the present-day realities and in particular to the issue of regaining the lost control over human condition, pressed me to sum up my view of the reasons for which such control has [...]
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