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"Britain, Ireland, And Europe" by David Miliband
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There are five themes running through my remarks. First, deeply embedded trends demonstrate that, while the European Union is risky in the short term, it will be strong in the medium and long terms. The EU has a powerful logic and purpose in the twen...
"Stop The Emergence Of A Liberal European Social Model!" by Björn Hacker
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The Monetary Union needs a ‘genuine’ social dimension instead of austerity dogma. The new European governance architecture with its central European Semester mechanism of coordination, reporting and monitoring in economic, budgetary, empl...
"Gridlock – Why Global Cooperation Is Failing" by David Held
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Watch Professor David Held deliver a lecture on his latest book entitled “Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most” as part of the Castle Lecture Series, Durham University, on 24th April 2013. You can find more inf...
"Unpacking The 2013 Human Development Index" by Tony Payne
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The UNDP claims ‘the Rise of the South’ is having a significant impact on economic growth and societal change. In a notable challenge to the gloom of recession in the West and all the continuing and, indeed scarcely unjustified, talk of c...
"The European Youth Guarantee: An Italian Perspective" by Francesco Pastore
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The EU Parliament and other EU institutions are considering very seriously the possibility to adopt for all member states a model of management of the labor market that is typical of the Central and Northern European countries. With the obligation of...
"Proposal For A Real Social Dimension Of EMU" by Bente Sorgenfrey and Harald Børsting
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For many years, the European Union’s recommendations regarding economic policy have emphasized the need to lead rigorous economic policies. This is, partly, seen in the European Semester and in the country-specific recommendations in general, a...
"A Marshall Plan For Europe" by Michael Sommer
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Proposal by the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) for an economic stimulus, investment and development programme for Europe. For historical reasons Germany has to be careful with giving advice to other countries. Even more so at the moment c...
"Austere Illusions" by Robert Skidelsky
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The doctrine of imposing present pain for future benefit has a long history – stretching all the way back to Adam Smith and his praise of “parsimony.” It is particularly vociferous in “hard times.” In 1930, US President...
"Austerity Versus Growth (II): The Sources Of Europe’s Demand Gap" by Stefan Collignon
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In my previous column, I have argued that prolonged negative output gaps in the Euro Area will reduce potential GDP, long-term growth and employment, because the lack of demand will disincentivize investment. What Europe needs, especially the south,...
"Social Europe Is The Only Solution" by Robin Wilson
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The current crisis of legitimacy of the EU can be traced in a path-dependent fashion to its roots in the aftermath of World War II. Subsequent historical distance has elided together the anti-fascist popular consensus across the continent after the d...
"Open-Access Economics" by Barry Eichengreen
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The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and S...
"Global Capital And The Nation State" by Robert Reich
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As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” — w...
"The Economy Of Tomorrow Project" by Marc Saxer
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How To produce socially just, sustainable and green dynamic growth for a Good Society. The near meltdown of the world economy in 2008 took most academics and decision-makers by surprise. Much of the early analyses concentrated on the “greed is...
"What Can The Social Dimension Mean In Times Of Austerity?" by Wolfgang Kowalsky
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Is there any topic less sexy than the ‘social dimension’? Even defining what it is can be tricky as there are many definitions out there so it tends to get mixed up with other terms. It is often used as the equivalent of ‘Social Eur...
"Discussing The Latest European GDP Figures" by Andrew Watt
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I was interviewed about the recent European GDP figures by CCTV America recently. This is what I had to say.
"What Is The Social Dimension Of The EU?" by Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
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Watch Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Head of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University, discuss the social dimension of the European Union. This video is part of the EU Social Dimension expert sourcing project ...
"Structural Reforms And The G20 Economies: Promises And Pitfalls" by Iyanatul Islam
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The G20 Leaders Declaration at the Toronto Summit (June 2010) endorsed an ambitious agenda of ‘structural reforms’ cutting across both labour and product markets that would lift global output significantly, create ‘tens millions mor...
"Life in Contemporary Greece – Drinking From The Bitter Cup" by Yiannis Mouzakis
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Out of all the visits to my homeland during the crisis, the trip at the end of summer of 2011 was the one that gave me the sense that Greece’s social fabric was close to tearing point. In June of that summer, the protests of thousands of Greeks...
"A Social Dimension For A Changing European Union" by Jaroslav Zavadil
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„It is exactly nine years since our country became a full member of the EU“. The Czech Republic set out to join the EU in a period dominated by the challenging process of transformation to adapt the economy to market conditions and in a s...
"Why The EU Must Be Tough On Social Imbalances" by Frank Vandenbrouke
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Excessive social imbalances in the EU are a matter of common concern and imply reciprocity in reform. The EU decided to apply a strict surveillance mechanism to fight excessive macroeconomic imbalances. However, Europe is also characterized by excess...
