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As growth is edging timidly forward in most of Europe, attention is increasingly turned to the state of labour markets and, especially, the high levels of unemployment and lack of job creation. Governments and social partners are in search of policies able to promote dynamic job creation and thereby bring down unemployment. In this context, [...]
‘A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ The real tragedy in Romeo and Juliet was that names do matter and all too often politicians try to change names instead of substance particularly when an old name is discredited. Most famously, under Margaret Thatcher the British nuclear reprocessing plant known as ‘Windscale’ was [...]
‘Building the Good Society’ has come at the right moment. Not only Europe but also European social democracy is ‘at a turning point’. This document stands in great contrast to the Blair and Schröder document of 1999, which represented ‘traditional’ social democracy – although it would be better to call it ‘transitory’ social democracy, since [...]
An ethically informed strategy, based on growth through investment and better employment conditions, is also the most effective. Our debate on the good society should not seek to design a social model based on ethical principles. Rather, ethics should help us in determining the direction and means by which we as democratic socialists seek to [...]
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