New research
Our new research studies reveal how the EU can work for people and the planet, offering transformative insights and alternative solutions.
The Left regularly commissions research studies from widely acclaimed academic experts to inform its parliamentary work and our positions.
Using transparent, independent and scientific methodology, our latest publications cast light on some of the issues that rank foremost among the concerns of European people and point the way towards an alternative EU.
Excess profits for a few, excessive cuts for the many?
A progressive excess profits tax of 20 to 40 per cent on those profits could collect roughly €107 billion per year within the EU – more than half the EU’s budget.
From Crisis to Cataclysm: Housing Financialisation & the EU
The study reveals the disastrous consequences of our economic model and outlines how radical change can guarantee the right to decent housing, which is so fundamental to our democracies.
Reduced working time in the European Union
Working time is a central issue in understanding the development of labour and social relations. The current reality shows how people’s working conditions consist of long working hours with anti-social schedules, which inevitably generate stress, fatigue, and exhaustion.