Avoiding ‘carbon leakage’—adjustments needed
Werner Raza, Bernhard Tröster, Verena Madner, Birgit Hollaus and Stefan Mayr
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
Europe-wide inequality during the pandemic
The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.
Citizens need clarity on Europe’s challenges
A cocktail of insecurity, misinformation and mistrust imperil Europe’s future. Reliable, accessible data are at a premium.
Health and care workers have had enough
Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan
Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.
Exclusion of women could end up costing our planet
COP27 in Egypt was massively dominated by male leaders. Yet African women are key agents in battling climate change.
Making women with disabilities visible
Marine Uldry and Pirkko Mahlmäki
Unemployed, underpaid, excluded—women with disabilities remain invisible in social policies related to employment.
Accessibility can improve everyone’s lives
In a digitalised world, accessibility is ever more at a premium for the visually impaired—who should be involved in finding solutions.
Killing Twitter
Elon Musk claims he bought the platform to ‘help humanity’ by investing in a public good—the world’s digital town square. But the people, not the pavement, make the town square.
Injustice is fuelling Europe’s energy crisis
Europe needs to shift from a system locked into climate-wrecking fuels, extractivism and autocracies—towards ‘energy justice’.
Europe’s 2050 mission to a future-fit economy
Lydia Korinek and Jakob Hafele
The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership and unshackled public investment.
European Child Guarantee: making it a reality
Bruno Ribeiro Barata, Ally Dunhill and Enrico Paolo Tormen
Portugal, whose national plan is launched today, offers a model for a transversal and localised approach.
Progress and setbacks from COP27
Patrick ten Brink, Luke Haywood, Katy Wiese and Alberto Vela
The European Union cannot rely on the United Nations process to deliver and must reinforce its own climate efforts.
Energy bills: direct payments needed, not fossil subsidies
Subsidising high energy costs might seem the obvious answer to the cost-of-living crisis—but it’s not.
The most wonderful time of the year
The splurge of Christmas consumerism, especially in Britain, Kate Pickett writes, is partly driven by status anxiety.
Now is the future for social security
In a Europe of increasingly non-standard employment, social protection for all is more rather than less imperative.
The entrepreneurial state must lead on climate change
As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proved unequal to the task of climate leadership.