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“The Real Existing EU and the Challenge of a Left Investment Policy”

The transform! and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's Workshop* gathered experts from all over Europe to discuss a progressive investment policy that would contribute to reindustrialisation, higher employment, as well as decreasing inequalities.

Towards Europe’s Productive Transformation – an Emergency

Issues revolving around an alternative European industrial policy and a productive transformation addressing social needs and ecological imperatives are at the core of the work carried out by the transform! Economists Working Group (TEWG).

Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation For Europe

This is the first report of the new project dedicated to a Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation for Europe. It aims at presenting the preliminary results of the work undertaken by a Transform! interdisciplinary Working Group composed of economists, trade unionists and historians – as well as its cooperation with relevant actors of the political Left towards a progressive EU-wide industrial and investment policy contributing to the social, ecological and democratic transformation of Europe.

Kick-Off Meeting of the new Transform! Working Group on European Reindustrialization

On the initiative of Transform! Europe, an interdisciplinary group of economists, trade unionists and historians met up at the Sapienza University of Rome on Thursday 25 September with the aim of launching a new working group dedicated to the reindustrialization of Europe. What are the crucial...

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Why Universal Basic Income?

Let me start by showing where the problem lies: right now, across the EU, there are over 14 million people unemployed, and millions who have been furloughed or who are working precarious jobs. And yet we are only at the start of a global economic crisis, the extent and duration of which no one can...

The European Automotive Sector – Time to Rethink Mobility!

Every sector of the economy has felt the impact of the coronavirus crisis, and car manufacturing is no exception. There are 12 million EU workers employed in the automotive industry, either directly in production or in parts manufacturing, and the sector accounts for 7% of the union’s GDP.[1] If we...

The Car Industry before and After the Coronavirus Crisis: Forget Solutions of the Past, It’s Time to Set a New Course.

Measures for the restructuring of the car industry to achieve a real shift in mobility as part of a socio-ecological transformation of our society. A statement by Labournet Germany.

A Green Bailout must Put Europe's Energy Poor First

To weather the COVID-19 crisis, Europe's energy-poor urgently need a green bailout – providing decent, zero-carbon homes for all, writes Clémence Hutin.

"Make money on value, not on health" #WhateverItTakes

Appeal from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), with the support of economists and personalities, on extraordinary macroeconomic measures to tackle the COVID-19 emergency.

„European Industrial policy – a Tool for a Green New Deal“

What kind of economic and industrial policy do we need at a European level to achieve climate neutrality until 2050? How does a progressive Green New Deal must look like?

Industrial Workers Want the European Green Deal to Deliver on Just Transition

Luc Triangle, General Secretary of industriAll (the Trade Union Federation of Trade Unions in the manufacturing, mining and energy sectors) reminds us: "decarbonisation is not happening in a social vacuum. Years of austerities have increased precariousness and inequalities while weakening public services and threatening workers' rights".

Time to end the market farce of energy transition: we need a pro-public democratically controlled energy system.

Samantha Mason from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS, UK) focuses in her contribution on the importance of the transformation of the energy sector in our struggle to stop net CO2 emissions. Hereby she stresses one of the most urgent, and often neglected, points that we cannot rely on decentralised transformatory solutions only.

Unconditional Basic Income as an Emancipatory Path Out of Capitalism

Unconditional Basic Income, formerly derided as a utopia, is increasingly stimulating public interest as a necessary alternative. For some it is a cure-all, for others the last outgrowth of neoliberalism, for increasingly more people it appears to be a milestone on the pathway out of capitalist wage-labour society and towards a solidary society.

“Confronting Climate Change – Red-Green Transformation in Europe and globally”

Transform!Danmark organized its eighth international conference in Copenhagen in spring 2019, continuing the debate on the development of left economic and ecological alternatives.

Can We Control the Digital Revolution?

To understand the challenge the digital revolution poses to humanity, and hence to left and progressive actors, we must situate it in the wider political horizon of the current crisis of civilization.

Report on transform! europe Participation in COP24 in Katowice

We analyse and engage the challenges of climate change from the perspective of our “productive transformation” project. For us only a systemic change of the whole capitalistic system can be real solution to anthropocentric climate change.

Recent Developments on Trade Policy in the EU and a Zombie Emerging Again on the International Political Scene: the Triade

The relationship of the EU to the rest of the world is primarily based on trade. The role a new Europe should play in a better world therefore primarily needs to be based on a new trade policy. What are relevant points if we discuss the trade policy of Europe[1]?

2018 Kick-Off Event for the “Productive Transformation” Project

On 27-28 April 2018, transform! europe's “Productive Transformation” Working Group organised a workshop to reflect its past efforts and what we should concentrate on in the future.

No Alternative Politics of European Integration without a Progressive European Industrial Policy

This article soon will be released in a publication edited by the Brussels office of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Re-Launching Industry for a European Productive-Social Transformation

Over 20 participants from across Europe gathered in Paris on 8 and 9 December on the occasion of a transform! workshop dedicated to the re-launch of industry in Europe.

Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation For Europe

This is the first report of a new project dedicated to a Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation for Europe. It aims at presenting the preliminary results of the work undertaken by a Transform! interdisciplinary Working Group composed of economists, trade unionists and historians – as well as its cooperation with relevant actors of the political Left towards a progressive EU-wide industrial and investment policy contributing to the social, ecological and democratic transformation of Europe.

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Deepening European Integration in Order to Get Realistic Options for the European Left

With this publication, transform! europe presents a discussion paper by Prof. Hartmut Elsenhans on the EU's economic and monetary policy. Elsenhans adopts a trade union-oriented view of the economy, which combines Keynesian economic analysis with a Marxist class analysis.

Social and Ecological Considerations for the Future of the Construction Sector

Without the construction sector, there can be no productive transformation and no Socialist Green New Deal. In this ePaper Stephen Schindler shows why it is so important for the left to familiarize itself with the construction sector and to push it to the centre stage in the discourse for the productive transformation of our European societies.

Transport and Climate Crisis – Lessons for the Left

Jens Holm invites the European Left to discuss the transition to sustainable transport: how can topics as diverse as the digital revolution, the climate crisis, the future of our cities and global value chains be integrated in one discussion?

Climate and Energy Transition in the Balkans

The publication starts with more general perspectives and the consequences of climate change for Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Bulgaria and continues in a second part with energy, using the examples of Croatia, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. An eDossier by Bilten in cooperation with transform! europe.

Different Scenarios for the Future of the Monetary Union

At the 2018 Summer University of transform! europe and the European Left Party in Vienna, the discussion regarding the best monetary system for the EU represents one of the most hotly discussed debates in left circles - hardly surprising, given the relevance of this issue.

Trade and Investment

Since trade and investment policies are of immense importance for our lives and political work transform! europe offers you this brochure on trade policy.

Towards Europe’s Productive Transformation – an Emergency

Issues revolving around an alternative European industrial policy and a productive transformation addressing social needs and ecological imperatives are at the core of the work carried out by the transform! Economists Working Group (TEWG). This collective Discussion Paper intends to present a...

Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation For Europe

This is the first report of the new project dedicated to a Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation for Europe. It aims at presenting the preliminary results of the work undertaken by a Transform! interdisciplinary Working Group composed of economists, trade unionists and historians – as well as its cooperation with relevant actors of the political Left towards a progressive EU-wide industrial and investment policy contributing to the social, ecological and democratic transformation of Europe.

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