is crucial to combat heat stress: vital role of trade unions in combating heat stress and need for organised labour to protect workers from this climate change-induced danger.
In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.
Social dialogue: defending democracy in practice (socialeurope.eu)
Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.
More Poverty for the Poor | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.
On the eightieth anniversary of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, it is time for a change of course. In this blog, our experts on the Bretton Woods Institutions explain why the world is in urgent need of more responsive, democratic, accountable and development-orientated. global economic governance.
Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: What should the future look like? – Eurodad
A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
Labour’s labour agenda—resetting relations with Europe (socialeurope.eu)
Growth is falling, its rewards are ill-shared and it is bursting planetary boundaries. Time for a rethink.
Rising tides, sinking boats: growth, climate and justice (socialeurope.eu)
Analysis of Zucman’s proposal:
A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest – Inequality.org
Real solutions to the crises fuelling the far right needs demand public investment. The super-rich must pay their share.
Tax on billionaires—political vaccine against the far right (socialeurope.eu)
It was as if the ghost of Karl Polanyi hung over political leaders and top government officials as they plotted the social future of Europe in Vilnius this week. Behind their backs, the Hungarian political economist would have understood their efforts to address the ‘polycrisis’ into which four decades of deregulated markets had plunged the continent—and their focus on socially re-embedding those markets to point the European ship towards calmer waters.
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