Category: Society - Page 14

For socially fair European disability cards

The proposal from the European Commission would fall short of equal citizenship for disabled people.

As trilogue negotiations begin, the EU is on the home stretch of a crucial directive for victims of human trafficking.

Titanium dioxide should remain classified as carcinogenic within the EU—despite industry interference.

Sweden’s much-lauded model of prosperity and social comfort is threatened by a lack of public investment.

The European Commission has put its disability cards on the table but it is not a full hand.

Pursuit of industrial competitiveness and renewable technologies must avoid a backlash from disengaged citizens.

Energy communities, fostering decentralised, renewable supply, need support with their additional social responsibilities.

Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.

The Granada declaration will signal whether Europe’s leaders can rise to the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.

Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.

A new approach is needed towards the photovoltaic industry in Europe.

A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.

The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.

The ‘Vienna model’ has been distorted to embrace private investment but its real redefinition should be ecological.

Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.

The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.