Bernhard Tröster, author at Social Europe

Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy Demands Equitable Global Partnerships

Bernhard Tröster, Simela Papatheophilou and Karin Küblböck

The EU's industrial ambitions hinge on transforming extractive relationships into sustainable partnerships with resource-rich nations.

The EU’s Landmark Mercosur Deal Promises Much But Delivers Little

Simela Papatheophilou, Werner Raza and Bernhard Tröster

The revised EU-Mercosur trade deal offers limited economic benefits for Europe, while its environmental provisions may undermine the bloc’s climate ambitions.

EU trade policy in troubled times

Bernhard Tröster

Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism,CBAM,carbon leakage

Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed

Werner Raza, Bernhard Tröster, Verena Madner, Birgit Hollaus and Stefan Mayr

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.

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Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss the transformative power of European Social Democracy, examine the far right’s efforts to redesign education systems to serve its own political agenda and highlight the growing threat of anti-gender movements to LGBTIQ+ rights – among other pressing topics.