
How to strengthen women’s resilience to disasters
Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, whose consequences compound it.
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.

Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, whose consequences compound it.

Learning to learn must be embedded in working life, Sofia Fernandes writes, if the EU is to meet social and economic goals.

The huge demonstrations against the pension ‘reform’ stem from accumulating resentment under Emmanuel Macron.

Training the workforce is central to attracting and retaining staff in quality social care.

Maurizia Mezza and Stuart Blume
Rapid deployment of vaccines is the key lesson being taken from the Covid-19 pandemic. It should not be the only one.

The European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making.

Transport of goods is the new slave-producing machine in Europe—a powerful tool for social dumping.

The new green race between the United States and the European Union threatens to leave developing countries behind.

Ian Lindsley, Tony Musu and Adam Rogalewski
There is more clarity about hazardous medicinal products but awareness still needs to be raised to protect workers.

As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda.

A Spanish decree to provide more security for artists and other cultural workers should accelerate EU-level action.

Charlotte Bez and Lorenzo Feltrin
Tackling deindustrialisation and degradation requires not a technological fix but a political alternative.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, many feared Europe’s green-energy transition would be collateral damage. Far from it.

Advancing gender equality in the EU depends on strong equality bodies in the member states.

The $9 billion promised to Pakistan is only a sticking plaster until the west acknowledges the dire climate legacy in south Asia.

The ‘securitisation’ of migration and asylum has not only meant drownings in the Mediterranean but also destitution in Europe’s cities.