Deinstitutionalisation, disability and delay
After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.
Society
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Europe’s future hangs in the balance
Europe Day should be a day of celebration. Today it is an affirmation of resolve.
No time for silos amid global heating
Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.
Covid-19 and the ‘deserving’ vulnerable
In public vaccination programmes, all humans should be equal. But some have proved more equal than others.
On May 1st, need for solidarity greater than ever
From Ukraine to the cost-of-living crisis to the pandemic, the social challenges of the moment demand a solidaristic response.
The too-invisible hand of the EU emissions market
Europe has lost almost two precious decades to decarbonise industry due to one of the worst designed EU policy instruments.
Climate leadership needs more women
Women face the greatest risks from environmental crises and have been shown to deliver better environmental policy results.
Public pensions push profit over care
The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.
What we need for long-term peace and prosperity
Recent crises have exposed the shortcomings of our international institutions and growth-obsessed economic models.
Ukrainian refugees and vaccination challenges
We are facing two huge crises: Ukraine and the pandemic. But no one is putting them together.
Why Europe can’t break free from the gas lobby
Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.
The never-ending pandemic
Wishful thinking has left many in Europe unaware that we are now stuck on a low road of significant, burdensome infection.
Transnational labour and social rights
A European layer of social insurance is increasingly necessary.
Class in the classroom
Nominally egalitarian education systems, Kate Pickett writes, can in reality reproduce deep social inequalities.
Climate justice requires women’s leadership
Without active participation of women, a carbon-neutral future will remain out of reach.
To quit Russian gas and oil, a green-transition jubilee
Europe must exit from its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by designating the next year as one of state-financed domestic conversions.
Europe’s solution to its energy dependence
Europe could simply buy fewer fossil fuels from Russia, maybe more from elsewhere—but there is a more fundamental answer.