Uniquement disponible en anglais The central questions and main contextual background explored by this year’s issue of Benchmarking are, at their core, fairly straightforward. Europe is at a crossroads, painfully navigating four transitions at once: a (perhaps less than obvious) economic policy transition best exemplified by the debates surrounding... Lire plus

Au début de l’année 2022, les espoirs étaient grands de voir refluer la pandémie de Covid-19, l’Union européenne (UE) allait être en mesure de se concentrer à nouveau sur le principal défi de ce siècle : comment aborder la transition verte et numérique d’une manière proactive, socialement équitable et inclusive ? Mais l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la... Lire plus

Uniquement disponible en anglais This paper assesses how well national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs) aim at jointly tackling the social and climate/environmental challenges of recovery from the crisis and the transition to a net zero carbon socioeconomic model. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks proposed by Mandelli (forthcoming) and by... Lire plus

Uniquement disponible en anglais Read the foreword by Luca Visentini, Nicola Countouris and Philippe Pochet. It has almost become a cliché to say that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities while also generating new ones. However, the following pages of this year’s Benchmarking Working Europe clearly reveal that, far from... Lire plus