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Towards a permanent EU investment fund

Meeting the EU’s climate and energy goals will mean ramping up public investment via a permanent fund.

Sustainable development is a global task largely to be delivered by national governments. What can they learn from the leader—Finland?

This week the European Commission will publish a proposal to revivify social dialogue. It must be more than words.

Digitalisation is not technologically determined but socially shaped—including by new forms of collective action.

EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.

With the ITUC General Council due to meet tomorrow, answers are urgently needed to the deeper issues raised by this affair.

The world made some progress in 2022 on climate change and protecting nature but entrenched interests remain to be overcome.

Documents from the International Gas Union have revealed the strategy of disinformation pursued by the powerful lobby.

Strong climate governance means holding governments to account. The EU institutions have shied away from doing so.

The EU’s Nature Restoration Law must implement key COP15 outcomes on biodiversity—in very short order.

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.

The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.

A cocktail of insecurity, misinformation and mistrust imperil Europe’s future. Reliable, accessible data are at a premium.

Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.

COP27 in Egypt was massively dominated by male leaders. Yet African women are key agents in battling climate change.

Unemployed, underpaid, excluded—women with disabilities remain invisible in social policies related to employment.