Devising devices with accessibility in mind
‘Baking’ accessibility into the household can make the day brighter for everyone.
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‘Baking’ accessibility into the household can make the day brighter for everyone.
Mental health cannot be ignored in the forthcoming European election campaign, given the scale of the problem.
Europe needs to see itself through the eyes of the millions of Europeans with intellectual disabilities—and act accordingly.
They will claim to stand up for ‘the people’ in the June elections. But the extreme right only stamps on women’s rights.
it is a truism to say democracy relies on a free press. But in a sea of misinformation that is because it’s a fact.
A job guarantee would not only eliminate long-term unemployment but also buttress the European Union.
‘Carebots’ are the mooted solution to the ageing crisis and staff shortages—but empathy and compassion are irreplaceable.
Inequality and the climate crisis go hand in hand, Lisa Pelling writes. So do the alternatives.
Fans have prevailed over finance in the Bundesliga—which should lead to a rethink of private equity’s role in society.
Belgian civil-society organisations issue a call to the presidency of the Council of the EU.
The fragility of our food system and lack of social acceptance of EU policies must be addressed in the next mandate.
Irene Schipper, David Ollivier de Leth and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The European Health Data Space under negotiations will turn citizens’ medical data into profits for US technology corporations.
Power imbalances in international sport, Ankita Anand writes, reflect the global north-south disparity.
Support is mobilised behind the demand by MEPs that Amazon’s lobbyists be barred from the European Parliament.
A wave of strikes has followed moves by the government in Helsinki to interfere with workers’ rights.
Early childhood education and care workers must be recruited, rewarded, recognised and retained.
A key decision is awaited on the directive on corporate sustainability due diligence—facing rearguard corporate resistance.
Unconventional policies buttressed a decline in inequality and poverty in the EU. Renewed austerity might endanger it.
Laura de Bonfils, Maria Nyman, Kahina Rabahi and Heather Roy
As the European elections loom, legislation addressing the root causes of poverty must move to the top of the agenda.
In the next term the EU can advance an eco-social future which values participation in care and enables access as a universal basic service.
A Harlem schools programme shows how education can counter, rather than reinforce, brute-luck disadvantage.