Washington and Brussels Need a New ‘Special Relationship’

Author Andy Green makes the case for the United States and the European Union to adopt coordinated, progressive reforms to address shared challenges such as the collapse of labor power, climate change, and the growth of monopolies and corporate concentration.

Since 2016, the Trump election, Brexit, and right-wing challenges across Europe have revealed an economic crisis of extraordinary proportions. Decades of laissez-faire economic policy have yielded a collapse in financial security for workers and farmers and a concentration of economic power at the very top. Now, China’s state capitalism has emerged to challenge the liberal economic and political order, with similar implications for workers and corporate concentration.

Sadly, the nationalist response in the United States since 2016 has largely made the problems worse, while Europe is often left on its own in defending the liberal principles of broadly distributed economic power.

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