World Cup kiss: feminist progress meets backlash
Spain’s #MeToo moment shows however that things are changing.
Society
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Facing the social realities of the green transition
Hans Dubois and Ana Jesus
Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.
A European Media Freedom Act worthy of its name?
Amid a sea of online misinformation, in a ‘polycrisis’ world reliable public-interest journalism has never been more essential.
The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder
Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.
Policing must be based on human rights
Police services exist to uphold the rule of law. They can only do so if their policing model is based on protection of human rights.
Three choices for a more strategic Europe
The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.
Changing the face of trade-union leadership
Women are increasingly assuming leading roles in trade unions. Next comes changing organisational cultures.
Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize
The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.
‘Social media’: the harms to women and girls
Europe needs to address a major factor in the mental-health crisis facing adolescent girls in particular.
Access to vaccines and medicines—a new paradigm
Vaccines and medicines must no longer be thought of as profitable commodities but public goods.
European Investment Bank: structural reform needed
Europe’s unwillingness to invest in public services and meet the greatest need is creating second-class citizens.
We only have one planet left to save
The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.
Why the Paris financing summit failed
The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.
European social dialogue for Europe’s social services
An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.
Pandemic babies: how they have fared
Babies born during the pandemic are behind on communication at age two—but other developmental areas remain unaffected.
Ukraine’s journalists battle for their independence
A report out today highlights how independent media will be as critical as funding for Ukraine’s postwar recovery.
Equality bodies: how things stand on EU standards
EU standards for national equality bodies have come a step closer but there is work for the European Parliament to do.