Category: Society - Page 11

Saving the planet means saving the world

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.

Europe must invest heavily in its decarbonisation. Yet the expenditures are manageable, the alternatives unconscionable.

The fragility of our food system and lack of social acceptance of EU policies must be addressed in the next mandate.

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.

The EU must stop giving ground on its climate vows—unless it wants to help the far right ride to victory.

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.

Strategic autonomy meets local democracy at the resource frontier while Europe pushes ahead with the green transition.

Early childhood education and care workers must be recruited, rewarded, recognised and retained.

The EU’s power sector is in the middle of a monumental shift from fossil-fuel to renewable generation.

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.

As the European elections loom, legislation addressing the root causes of poverty must move to the top of the agenda.