Social Welfare

Anna Coote and Sebastian Mang on the building blocks of truly sustainable prosperity.

Despite the progress made towards greater gender equality at work, many women work jobs that they are overqualified for, especially migrant women.

European progressives should refocus their efforts to create a system of equal opportunity and fair reward according to contribution.

The spike in energy prices in Belgium shows that social justice and environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin.

Anna Toniolo looks at the political consequences of the precarity and unaffordable expenses faced by young people in Italy.

Radu Stochita discusses how collective bargaining can guard against economic impoverishment and political radicalisation.

As the economic growth that has driven prosperity slows, we need a new concept of well-being independent of labour market conditions.

Trials in recent years, an advanced national debate and a new progressive majority in Parliament make Finland a key context to follow for basic income developments.

László Andor talks to us about social Europe, his idea of a European unemployment insurance scheme & whether the EU institutions are neoliberal.

Is social democracy in irreversible decline or does it need to be reimagined by different forces, such as the Greens?