RT Book, Section T1 Europe and the economic lessons of the COVID-19 crisis: Ecofeminism and development alternatives A1 Gálvez Muñoz, Lina A1 Agenjo-Calderón, Astrid K1 Feminist economics K1 Sustainability of life K1 COVID 19 AB This chapter addresses the scenarios that are opening up in Europe, using two complementary prisms to structure our ideas. It analyses the European Union (EU) measures that have been implemented and the resulting advances as well as criticisms raised from the feminist sectors. The chapter examines other strategies of feminist resistance and struggle that allow progress towards Life Sustainability as an emancipatory horizon and a new way of organizing the economic system. The feminist factions demanded: on the one hand, to overturn the austerity policy, with a progressive tax reform that did not favour the male provider/female caregiver family model and that fought against tax fraud. Gender equality has always been a constituent part of the European Social Model but not always with the same focus. A green transition that tries not to leave anyone behind in the short term should not forget the transformation horizons in the long term. PB Routledge YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25861 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25861 LA en NO Gálvez-Muñoz, Lina y Agenjo-Calderón Astrid (2022). "Europe and the economic “lessons” of COVID-19: ecofeminism and development alternatives" En López-Castellano, F; Lizárraga, C. and Manzanera-Ruiz, R. (eds). Neoliberalism and Unequal Development: Alternatives and Transitions in Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 203-219 Routledge. NO Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain DS RIO RD May 8, 2026