Just one year ago, the European Council approved the creation of the Next Generation EU instrument (NGEU). This is a financing instrument endowed with more than € 800,000 million (2021-2027) designed to help overcome the health, social and economic crisis derived from the Covid-19 pandemic. It has the specific purpose of building up European economies and societies to prepare them to respond better to the challenges of ecological transition, digitisation and resilience.

Carlos Cabrera, general manager fo the Institut Cerdà “Economic inequality” was the reply of Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University when asked which topic had been the most difficult for him to write on. He said…