Civil Society Proposals for Policy Alternatives on Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
The challenge to develop a growth model for Europe that is innovation-fuelled, sustainable and inclusive is at the core of the activities of the ISIGrowth project. This Report addresses the way Europe’s civil society has viewed and addressed such challenge, contributing to Europe’s policy debate. It offers the most comprehensive overview to date of the wide range of proposals for policy alternatives developed in recent years by European civil society. The policy areas covered in the text include: macroeconomic policies; tax policy; finance; trade and investment policy and the TTIP negotiations; industrial policy; environmental sustainability and climate change; technology; labour, employment and wages; inequality; and economic governance and democracy. Each chapter includes a critical analysis – from the perspective of European civil society and of progressive movements in general – of the key problems relating to each macro area, followed by an overview of the policy alternatives that have been proposed. Where applicable, a list of actions and mobilisations organised around each specific is included. The evidence presented in this Report has come from a careful monitoring of the initiatives carried out and from reviewing the vast body of work produced by European civil society organisations, trade unions, think tanks and scholars associated with them, with particular attention to the organisations that have accepted to be members of the Civic Action Network of the ISIGrowth project.
How Can Europe Change?
Civil Society Proposals for Policy Alternatives on Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
Thomas Fazi
Lunaria