Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize
Patrick ten Brink, Faustine Bas-Defossez and Laura Hildt
The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
‘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
Tania Cernuschi and Georgios Stathopoulos
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
Jayati Ghosh, Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Johannah Bernstein
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
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Sylvain Renouvel
An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.
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.
An EU framework for artists’ working conditions, finally?
A framework for conditions in the cultural sector is back on the agenda. This time it must stay there.
Childcare as a catalyst—Portugal’s bold step
Portugal’s rolling out of free universal childcare offers a model in social investment and tackling inequality.
The Global Rights Index and building a better world
Attacks on workers’ rights are on the rise—in no region of the world can they be taken for granted any longer.
Disabled people and the right to personal assistance
Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.
Cultivating inclusion through EU film funding
Audio description and audio subtitling should become eligibility criteria for EU-funded film projects.
Bologna’s riders: ‘It’s not for us but for everyone!’
The metropolitan struggles of food-delivery riders in Bologna carry lessons beyond their space and time.
Ukraine: renewable energy, war and reconstruction
Svitlana Romanko and Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka
Key to Europe’s future energy security is rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure with renewable energy.