Generative AI needs more than a light touch
Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano
Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
Football’s tilted playing-pitch in Europe
The beautiful game is sullied by commodification. Regulation should empower the fans at its heart.
Global cities: crucibles of innovation
Urban geographer Ash Amin explains to Robin Wilson why modern metropoles can be hubs of innovation and dynamism.
Eradicating long-term unemployment
Laurent Grandguillaume and Niels Planel
Social enterprises can offer the long-term unemployed an exit from the vicious circle of inactivity, France is showing.
Late retirement: possible for many, not for all
Finland was quick to respond to demographic ageing. What lessons can be learnt from its pension reforms?
Environmental policy: avoiding a social backlash
Elizabeth Dirth and Christiny Miller
The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.
The promise and peril of generative AI
To ensure tools such as ChatGPT deliver widely shared benefits, we must learn from the last wave of digital innovation.
E-fuels: a synthetic solution to the real problem
The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.
Tackling staff shortages in health and social care
On World Health Day, lessons learned from workers’ expressions of discontent must be translated into action.
Cinderella no more: mental health matters
Gerry Mitchell and Shana Cohen
It’s time to move mental health to the top of the European Union policy agenda.
Geniuses and ‘mad’ women: culture as mental cauteriser
Women are at the heart of the epidemic of mental ill-health—as healers as well as victims.
How platform workers show solidarity and organise
As the economic and political power of platforms soars, platform workers represent an emergent labour movement.
Professional sovereignty for Europe‘s youth
Günther Schmid, Janine Leschke, Bernard Gazier and Lutz Bellmann
Transitions from school to work must be improved for individual youngsters. Switzerland shows the way.
Equal citizenship for persons with disabilities
An ambitious Disability Card is key to making the European Union a reality for people with disabilities.
Will this be the last European Gas Conference?
The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.
Confronting the global water crisis
Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström and Tharman Shanmugaratnam
To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.