We in Europe have become accustomed to progressives in the United States looking to us for inspiration.
Higher standards of workers' rights and lower levels of inequality are what is meant to mark our social market economy out from what often seems like Wild West capitalism pursued across the Atlantic.
But, in recent months, these roles have been dramatically reversed.
While president Joe Biden has made the creation of "good-paying, union jobs" a priority, the European Union...
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Esther Lynch is general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, which represents 45 million members from 93 trade union organisations in 41 European countries.