Politics

This Q & A reveals how European experts responded and advised very differently from their peers in many West Pacific countries. Europeans – and the whole world – are paying the highest price for what may be the biggest blunder of the 21st century.

Social policies have been the major victims of neoliberal globalisation. Slowly the IMF and the World Bank adopted a more open attitude. However, the road is bumpy. In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ‘New Social Contract’. But what the World Bank is really up to?

Society should overcome ‘silo’ thinking and leave our deeply rooted mental models reflected in policy sectors. This is the Chair’s Summary of a SDG Workshop organized by the Club of Rome EU-Chapter and European Public Policy Advisors in wich Dirk Barrez (Pala.be) participated.

Action research confronts the Transition Network Civil Society with some challenges. Civil society organisations seem to lack the power to realise system-wide solutions – for example to regain the grip of society on the banking system after the financial crisis – or to push the political and economic world into that direction.