Thousands of migrants and refugees living in makeshift camps in the French port city of Calais are making nightly attempts to enter the Channel Tunnel freight terminal in a bid to reach Britain. The French government has deployed riot police and extra security around the tunnel, but that didn't deter 1,700 people from making the attempt on Sunday night, according to a French police union. The unio

One day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, far right activists and Christian fundamentalists demonstrate in Lyon against the Islamisation of France. Photograph: Serge Mouraret/Demotix/Corbis One day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, far right activists and Christian fundamentalists demonstrate in Lyon against the Islamisation of France. Photograph: Serge Mouraret/Demotix/Corbis

Swedish fire crews extinguish a row of burning cars in Rinkeby after youths rioted in Stockholm suburbs. Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/Reuters Swedish fire crews extinguish a row of burning cars in Rinkeby after youths rioted in Stockholm suburbs. Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/Reuters

2004年から06年に、スウェーデンの財務大臣を務めたペール・ヌーデル氏の特別寄稿の第2回を掲載する。 政治・経済とも閉塞感の強い日本に対し、高い成長と充実した社会福祉を実現している国の一つが、北欧のスウェーデンである。スウェーデンは、1990年代にバブルの崩壊で、日本をも上回る金融危機を経験した。日本との違いは、その90年代に税制、財政、福祉、年金制度について、「世紀の大改革」と呼ばれる構造改革を敢行したことだ。もちろん、社会保障も含めた国民負担率は65％と日本の39％を大きく上回るが、国民はこのスウェーデン・モデルを支持している。いまや同国は高福祉・高負担の停滞した国ではない。 前回（2010年12月17日掲載）は、時代認識、改革の狙いと成果を中心に述べたが、今回はスウェーデン・モデルのどこに競争優位性があるのかについて語る。（※本寄稿は昨年11月中旬に日本総合研究所主催で行われたシン

Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the unemployment crisis, we also talk to hard-hit twentysomethings in Athens and Madrid Italy's new prime minister, Mario Monti, has vowed to help the younger generation, promising among other things to hel

Anders Behring Breivik longed to live in a different Norway than the one he got. But in literature, if not in life, there exists a Norway that the anti-Muslim extremist, accused of the country’s largest massacre since the Second World War, might appreciate: a country pure and rugged and unto itself, unspoiled by Marxists and Muslims and multiculturalists and modernity. This Norway appears in the e

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Europe's mainstream political parties are engaged in a worsening feud over how to deal with the growing power of extreme rightwing anti-immigrant movements. Amid a backlash against immigration that has shaken Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden in recent months, governments of the centre-right or centre-left appear at a loss to counter the appeal of extremist populists who have moved from

最近日本の一部で異様にネオリベ風味のベーシックインカム論が流行していますが、肝心のヨーロッパではもっとまともな議論が主流であるということを、欧州議会が最近採択した決議をさらっと一瞥するとよく分かります。 今年７月１６日付で欧州議会が採択した「欧州における貧困との闘いと包摂的社会の促進におけるミニマムインカムに関する決議」がここにありますが、 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A7-2010-0233+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN >3.      Demands that real progress be made on the adequacy of minimum income schemes, so as to be capable of lift

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