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The first rule of the Swedish coronavirus strategy was to protect the elderly. But we failed. The welfare state, once the pride of the Social Democratic government, has been weakened by decades of austerity and profit-oriented management logic. As a part of building the welfare state in the 1960s and […]
Read MoreThe distribution of both paid and unpaid care work in society is probably the single, largest factor affecting economic inequalities between men and women. Because they provide the overwhelming amount of unpaid care, women have often been excluded from the economic, political and cultural life. And, while the professionalisation of […]
Read MoreThe care crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has shed light on the everyday functioning of live-in care migration from Central and Eastern Europe. It presupposes the transnational lives of migrant care workers, but paradoxically also denies them at the same time. Germany and Austria are among the countries with […]
Read MoreThe current EU Roma Framework runs out this year – but despite almost a decade of policy activity, not much improvement has materialised.
Read MoreThe lack of a consistent definition raises the question if European Roma policy is doomed to failure, as its target is not clearly defined.
Read MoreThe EU’s direct involvement with policy specifically directed towards Roma was a response to change political conditions arising from eastward enlargement.
Read MoreBy imagining Roma as a distinct and coherent transnational ethnic minority and policy object, the EU at risk of becoming the stepmother country of an orphan people.
Read MoreTo overcome racism, democracy needs to be completed, with a guaranteed and equal access to freedom, justice, and equality – Progressives have a role go play here.
Read MoreThe US elections in November are a chance to make that change happen and to remove the most racially divisive president in the last century from office.
Read MoreEuropeans need to fight two viruses, simultaneously and equally vehemently: the new coronavirus, and the political virus which is attacking our fundamental rights and our democracies.
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