Europe | IPS Journal

Header

Pexels

Europe

After corona is before the Depression?

Economist Gustav Horn on how to strengthen Germany's economy — and why stimulus package at European level is essential

By Gustav A. Horn

Pixabay

European integration

The ‘frugal four’ should save the European project

Peter Bofinger argues that additional loans do not add up to a rescue package which can save Europe from the corona crisis

By Peter Bofinger

Pexels

European integration

Germany has a lot on its plate during the EU Council presidency

The German EU presidency will have to deal with the corona crisis, strengthen the EU budget and listen carefully to citizens

By Linn Selle

Pexels

Europe

Europe's emotional desert

Brexit and the EU's response to Italy's corona crisis expose the lack of proximity between citizens and the EU

By Laura Parker

Reuters

Interviews

'The working class is incredibly pluralist now'

Simon Hix on the rise and fall of social democracy in the last 100 years — and how social-democratic parties can still win

Reuters

Europe

The German asparagus saga

In the Covid-19 crisis, the asparagus harvest exposed the myth of 'low-skilled' migrants. It's time to rethink labour mobility

By Vladimir Bogoeski

Pexels

European integration

If not end European austerity now, when?

A European recovery must break with the austerity dogma. The alternative is to slip back into small-state mentality

By Joachim Schuster

Reuters

European integration

How Fidesz and PiS exploit the culture war

They are pushing polarising agendas and devastating socio-economic policies. EU elites only seem to care about the former

By Eszter Kováts, Elena Zacharenko

Reuters

Europe

Covid-19 forces Europe to rethink globalisation

Globalisation as we knew it is over, Europe must regain sovereignty over key industries. Nearshoring could be one option

By Camille Rustici

Pixabay

Europe

Corona in 5G

A lesson to be learnt from the current crisis is that Europe needs to avoid being dependent in sensitive areas of production

By Jens Zimmermann