Category: Society - Page 13

The sustainability transition needs a new narrative

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.

A job guarantee could end long spells of joblessness for millions in the EU and send a pre-election signal that a ‘social Europe’ is possible.

Achieving the right to disconnect is becoming a test case of the European Union’s commitment to social dialogue.

Unified citizenship education is a must to stop democratic backsliding in the European Union.

As pressures grow on Europe’s hospitals, lessons must be learned from social dialogue during the pandemic.

Fossil-energy prices have played a big role in the cost-of-living crisis—and renewables are a big part of the solution.

The climate blueprints from EU member states are inadequate—and would forgo major socio-economic benefits.

The latest survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights shows racism is pervasive and persistent.

EU member states must not water down critical legislation protecting media independence and pluralism.

Europe’s media need to be more diverse, Ankita Anand writes, to reflect accurately the world on which they report.

The monopoly online retailer has extracted vast rents from workers and citizens who are raising their voices globally.