Category: Society - Page 12

Rare earths, geopolitics and a village called Ulefoss

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.

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.

Women, though disproportionately affected by climate change, are an afterthought when it comes to climate action.

The long process of levelling up the capacity of EU member states’ equality bodies is accelerating to a conclusion.

A spotlight on health and social care shows the need for an EU directive on musculo-skeletal disorders.

Tesla’s confrontation with Swedish workers highlights how solidarity must be enabled in a globalised Europe.

The ‘gig’-economy directive, a critical legacy of social rights from this EU term, is being held up by some member states.

Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.

Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.

Tackling energy poverty is key if the European Green Deal is to be transformative. That in turn requires a gender lens.