Hatvan éve hunyt el Polányi Károly.

👇 A gondolatai azonban időszerűbbek, mint bármikor.
merce.hu/2024/04/23/pol…

For a thinker identified with the phrase ‘double movement’, this double anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on his life and his outstanding contribution to political economy. #KarlPolanyi #freemarket ⁦International Karl Polanyi Society⁩ #TheGreatTransformation socialeurope.eu/karl-polanyi-a…

How to confront the far right in Europe encompass-europe.com/comment/how-to… Patrick Costello #FarRight #Europeanelections #ep2024

🇭🇺🇪🇺 I am delighted to see our new book published. Although the HU government will not commemorate the 20th anniversary of EU accession, we have prepared an in-depth assessment. This book takes stock of Hungary's EU membership in a public policy context: osiriskiado.hu/politika-polit…

'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates dlvr.it/T3jrcz

'For the first time in decades, the United States has a plausible simulacrum of an industrial policy. The question to assess is whether and to what extent this policy has met – or will meet – any of its stated broad or narrow objectives.' James K Galbraith
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Esther Lynch EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS László Andor Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 Pierre-Yves Dermagne Nicolas SCHMIT Enrico Letta PES 🌹🇪🇺 S&D Group Hubertus Heil The Progressive Post PSOE Bruselas PD Bruxelles SPD Brüssel Section PS français en Belgique PvdA Brussel/België We welcome the signing of the La Hulpe Declaration, an important commitment to continue implementing the principles of the European Pillar of #SocialRights ! 🇧🇪✊

👏Kudos to the BE Presidency Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024, Nicolas SCHMIT & all those who made it possible!

#EU2024BE #SocialRights

Essential investigation by Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko into the remarkable Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in spring 2022, documenting that both sides showed vision, courage, flexibility, and that the deal failed for complex, if not inevitable reasons.
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-…

In my post, I go into greater detail on Hirschman’s ideas, and their relation to modern development economics. His approach of “petite idées”, informed by empirical observation, seems the model for a clear-eyed way of thinking about development.

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Competition between Social Democracy & the Populist right- Karl Loxbo examines how welfare regimes shape varying electoral responses in Western Europe. Read in Political Studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

#YearofVotingPS 8/30

Political StudiesAssoc @SAGECQPolitics #polsci #immigration

Here's the English version of our investigation into how Hungarian state funding was used to finance the 2022 takeover of Euronews.

It was an amazing collaboration with our colleagues Le Monde and Expresso.

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'Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.' jacobin.com/2024/04/robin-…

The EU budget needs extensive reform both to resolve longstanding shortcomings and in anticipation of a further enlargement of the Union. #EUbudget

🆕 insight by Iain Begg for CER.

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International Roma Day: Still facing high levels of discrimination brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/997…

Sincere congratulations Peter Pellegrini on your election as President of Slovakia. And sincere wishes for a successful term, especially in these times of extraordinary challenges when we need a strong, prosperous Europe and a strong, prosperous Slovakia.

Prajem veľa úspechov.

MEP Markus Pieper was outqualified by two female candidates from smaller member states. But he belongs to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's own political party.

Is that all it takes to get a senior Commission job?

transparency.eu/joint-letter-t…

„Az embereknek nemcsak egyenlőbb létfeltételekre van igényük, hanem annak elismerésre is, hogy mindenkit egyenlő tisztelet illet, hogy senki emberi méltósága nem sérthető.”

🖤Meghalt Ferge Zsuzsa, az elmúlt fél évszázad egyik legjelentősebb magyar társadalomtudósa.

Hot off the press: Why has there been no full employment in the EU since the 1970s, and how far are we from it today? Our new paper by Meryem Gökten, Philipp Heimberger and Andreas Lichtenberger.
Download it here: ➡️ wiiw.ac.at/p-6838.html

Martin Luther King was assassinated April 4, 1968. He died fighting for a union for poor, black workers—and became a close ally to radical longshore workers in the final year of his life.
inthesetimes.com/article/martin…

MotL 67 is live! 📢

✨Economic Democracy w/ Pavlina R Tcherneva ✨

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Please listen, read & share! 🙏

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