Category: Society - Page 12

An eco-social care contract for Europe

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.

To ensure broad-based support for wholesale change, policy-makers will need to pursue an equitable transformation.

The European Commission’s plan to extend the Emissions Trading Scheme to the sector falls short in driving decarbonisation.

The European Green Deal faces a fork in the road—between the politics of hope and the politics of fear—as the June elections loom.

National measures adopted amid the energy crisis missed the opportunity to pursue social and climate goals.

Even if ambitious 2030 targets were attained, Sofia Fernandes writes, learning mobility would still be a minority privilege.

Pursuing energy efficiency will generate more construction jobs—but that requires tackling labour shortages and skills mismatches.