Corporate sustainability needs a gender lens
The draft EU directive on corporate sustainability remains gender-blind. And what you don’t see you can’t fix.
Economy
Beyond industrial policy
To tackle 21st-century challenges and ensure a sustainable future, we need a policy framework that recognises the value of human connection.
Why is France unable to reach social compromises?
With a tenth general strike in France against the pension reform, an exit is needed from decrees and street clashes towards negotiated governance.
Suave Sunak cold comfort for impoverished Britons
Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.
Equal citizenship for persons with disabilities
An ambitious Disability Card is key to making the European Union a reality for people with disabilities.
Will this be the last European Gas Conference?
The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals next week in Vienna.
Confronting the global water crisis
To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.
Hungary’s ‘propaganda machine’ attacks women
Report highlights gendered disinformation online and calls for women-centred reform of ‘social media’ platforms.
Environmental stewardship yes, ‘carbon farming’ no
Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.
Checking the populist tide—for now
Can the Czech Republic keep bucking the populist trend in central Europe affecting Poland, Slovakia and Hungary?
The IRA and European industrial policy
With the US turning interventionist, the EU will look foolish still backing ‘free markets’. Time for an enterprise policy.
The shakeup the World Bank needs
If Ajay Banga is confirmed as World Bank president he will have to meet the demands of a global south eager for change.
Moldova first domino in a Russian plan for escalation?
Events in Georgia represent a setback for Russia’s meddling in the post-Soviet neighbourhood. But they are no sign it will end.
Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work
Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.
Will tech layoffs silence or galvanise tech workers?
Mass layoffs have hit large technology companies. Previously well-paid workers suddenly became the target of brutal firings.
Disaster in Greece: when politics goes off the rails
The government’s efforts to deflect responsibility for the train disaster have failed to contain public outrage.
How to promote green industry beyond subsidies
The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.
The myth of meritocracy and the populist threat
Social democrats, Lisa Pelling writes, should abandon the idea of meritocracy if they are to reconnect with les classes populaires.
Germany trapped in an unavoidable change
Germany has made significant strides to transcend ordoliberal nostra. But huge obstacles still stand in the way of progress.