Economy
Eloi Laurent: “An alliance between social justice and ecological sustainability must take over”
Monday 01 February 2021 |
Catherine André | Alternatives Economiques
The Covid-19 pandemic is a cruel reminder that ecosystem vitality and human health are closely linked. For Eloi Laurent, "the best economic policy is a good health policy and the best health policy is a good environmental policy. We see that there is no trade-off between economy and environment."
Online ads know you well
Wednesday 25 November 2020 |
Federico Caruso | OBC Transeuropa
The online advertising system is based on the collection and sharing of user data, in an opaquely competitive market which rests mostly in a few powerful hands, including Google. Privacy and data protection are at issue, and Europe is debating what action should be taken.
Another 83 years to close the gender pay gap
Tuesday 16 February 2021 |
Naïri Nahapétian | Alternatives Economiques
Using data from Eurostat, the European Trade Union Confederation has analysed the slow progress of EU countries in reducing the gender pay gap.
Climate renovation of buildings: lessons from around Europe
Tuesday 26 January 2021 |
Antoine de Ravignan | Alternatives Economiques
To meet its climate targets, the EU must double the speed it is renovating its residential and office buildings. Sweden has already almost completely decarbonised its sector. But it is on its own.
Mine tailing dams: the giants we ignore at our peril
Monday 08 February 2021 |
Marco Ranocchiari | OBC Transeuropa
Tailing ponds are among the largest and most dangerous structures engineered by humanity, but their operation is virtually unknown to those who don’t live in their vicinity. Europe is no less at risk from incidents than the rest of the world.
Migrants amidst COVID-19: heroes, just for one day
Tuesday 12 January 2021 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci Daniele Ruzza
| VoxEurop
Fresh data released by the Migration Data Portal highlight the positive role migrant workers have played during COVID-19 crisis in Western societies, as well as their exposure to the pandemic.
Brexit: Can supply disruptions be avoided?
Wednesday 23 December 2020 |
Aude Martin | Alternatives Economiques
Who exports and who imports? A German economics think tank, the Ifo institute, has looked at the interdependencies between the European Union and the United Kingdom.
The foreign companies awarded contracts for the Covid-19 response in Italy
Monday 21 December 2020 |
Openpolis Since the beginning of the pandemic, Italian authorities have allocated almost five billion euro for the supply of materials necessary for containing the spread of the virus. 1.7 billion went to foreign companies. An analysis of the public contracts awarded in response to Covid-19 in Italy.
UK’s north-south divide will worsen outside the EU
Friday 11 December 2020 |
Aude Martin | Alternatives Economiques
The most recent research suggests that Brexit will further deepen Britain’s already yawning regional inequalities, especially between London and the North of England.
Brexit: The dream of British Conservatives is in trouble
Friday 27 November 2020 |
Aude Martin | Alternatives Economiques
The handful of trade deals that the British government has so far concluded with non-EU countries will not fully compensate for the loss of the European market.
