Beyond 1.5°C: Putting people at the heart of policy
Even with every national plan delivered, global temperatures are set to exceed the 1.5°C threshold within the next few years. Policy speed now decides the damage.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
Europe’s Teenagers Want Care Careers, Just Not the Ones Europe Needs Most
Joanna Sikora and Jerry A. Jacobs
PISA data on a million 15-year-olds show that, in many countries, over 90 per cent of care-minded teenagers expect professional jobs.
Unpaid Work in the AI Age
Americans spend six working days annually navigating government bureaucracy, a burden that AI could help ease.
Parliament Has Spoken: The Commission Must Now Regulate Psychosocial Risks
After a 413-to-210 vote for binding EU rules on psychosocial risks, stress and mental health at work, the Commission has three months to respond.
Burnout: Parliament Puts the Commission to the Test
Estelle Ceulemans’s report would make burnout an occupational disease and strengthen workers’ right to switch off.
Humans Are Abandoning the Body Just as AI Learns to Live Without One
Young people shun sex while OpenAI’s agents break out of their sandboxes: both sides are shedding the body.
Narrow Metrics Teach AI Agents to Cheat, Hack, and Flatter
OpenAI’s agents breached Hugging Face because peers were doing it, a flaw rooted in how labs train models.
The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work
The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.
The Pope Should Have Gone Further on AI
Pope Leo XIV calls AI a threat to human dignity but stops short of questioning an industry designed to automate human tasks.
Why Reports of Sociology’s Public Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Valeria Pulignano and Paul Stewart
Sociology has not surrendered its public voice to philosophy. It has lost the illusion that it speaks from nowhere.
Europe’s Graduate Glut Collides With The AI Disruption
Odysseas Konstantinakos and Luca Cigna
Record applications to the EU civil service reveal saturated labour markets, a hollowed-out state and a generation exposed to automation.
Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously
The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.
Social Rights: The View from the Council of Europe
During the High-level Conference on Social Rights this month in Chișinău, Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, gave an exclusive interview to Social Europe.
The Locked-Out Generation: Europe’s Housing Market Is Failing Its Young
Across the continent, soaring prices and stagnant supply have turned homeownership into a mirage for many young Europeans
Will Democracy Govern Capitalism — or Be Consumed by It?
Joseph Stiglitz and Jayati Ghosh
Taxing extreme wealth and multinationals is essential to defeating “21st-century Caesarism” and reclaiming democratic governance from the global elite.
How Europe Can Finally Deliver on Its Promise to Children
Dominic Afscharian and Torben Fischer
Nearly a quarter of EU children face poverty—member states must learn from each other’s policy successes.