Reclaim your space through lesbian resistance!
Silvia Casalino and Zita Gurmai
Lesbian feminists gather today for a conference in Budapest facing a ‘gender ideology’ backlash.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
Children a conflict’s most vulnerable victims
Europe must put children first in its response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Climate change: what Europeans think
The latest European Social Survey shows rising concern about climate change. But is it enough?
Failing the pandemic-preparedness test
The G20’s pandemic-preparedness fund risks becoming just another burdensome distraction.
Health and social care: staff shortages critical
Adam Rogalewski and Philip Freeman
Clapping key workers was one thing—Europe needs to recruit and retain more of them.
Ukrainian women in Poland—an insecure sanctuary
Poland’s welcome doesn’t mitigate the upheaval and labour gaps facing refugees.
Children’s rights—delivering the Child Guarantee
Social services must be central if the Child Guarantee is to deliver for vulnerable children.
Is ESG the solution to climate and social ills?
Corporations tacking on environmental and social goals falls well short of an answer.
Here we go again …
The cost-of-living crisis, Kate Pickett writes, follows a familiar path of hugely unequal burdens.
Who cares for the carers?
Tuscany Bell and Jan Willem Goudriaan
The European Care Strategy is a step in the right direction but care workers need more.
Enclosing the internet—Big Tech’s cloud cover
Like physical clouds, the services provided by the technology majors are utterly opaque.
Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction
Lavinia Steinfort and Andrew Cumbers
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis.
Deinstitutionalising disabled people—making it happen
Adoption of strategies on deinstitutionalisation could reinvigorate a stalled process in Europe.
Vehicles and just transition—turning the wheel
Coal has been at the heart of the just-transition debate. Cars need to be central too.
Effective pandemic response must be truly global
Mariana Mazzucato and Jayati Ghosh
The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.
European women’s football—still a cold-war divide
Roland Benedikter and Dariusz Wojtaszyn
Why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees?