This article is part of our special report A hard winter up ahead. After significant progress in the EU’s employment and social rights policy in the first semester of 2022, all eyes are now on the Czech presidency of the EU Council to see whether this momentum will continue in the second half of the year.
Trying to push the social economy as a flourishing sector of the economy, the EU is using a variety of ways to overcome the tension at the heart of the social economy: How do you attract money to a sector that defines itself as not being about the money?
The euro has existed for over 20 years but many EU member states still have not signed up, with hesitance for political and economic reasons cited as the main stumbling block.
