Escaping the growth and jobs treadmill: a new policy agenda for post-coronavirus Europe
The devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market, people’s livelihoods, wellbeing and the environment raise an important question: how do we get out of this mess? The European Youth Forum and the European Environmental Bureau teamed up to outline that there is an alternative to going back to “normal” and one that will avoid the cliff edge towards which we are accelerating.
The existing policy landscape is constrained by economic ideas and tools built for another time. In this report, we outline a new policy agenda for post-coronavirus Europe in order to escape the endless treadmill of growth and jobs.
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