Category: Society - Page 24

Children’s rights—delivering the Child Guarantee

Social services must be central if the Child Guarantee is to deliver for vulnerable children.

Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.

The cost-of-living crisis, Kate Pickett writes, follows a familiar path of hugely unequal burdens.

The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.

Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.

Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.

Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.

Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.

The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.

Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?

As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism.

Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.

Europe could go backwards on just transition in the face of the fossil-fuel supply crisis. Except that it can’t.

Poland has opened its border with Ukraine to war refugees. Not so at another border, with Belarus.

Peter Bofinger argues that state guarantees of loans to households could cushion the price shock at negligible cost.

Is the European Commission complying with the UN convention on disability vis-à-vis funding institutions from the EU budget?