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.
Society
Analysis and debate on work and welfare, social rights, migration, gender, climate and the future of European societies.
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
Mark Hancock and Jan Willem Goudriaan
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
Vesna Trifunović and Stuart Blume
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
Susanne Schmidt and Susanne Wixforth
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
Laura Chinchilla and María Fernanda Espinosa
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.
Enhancing Europe’s equality framework
Minimum standards for national equality bodies are needed to ensure equal treatment applies equally across the EU.
Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?
The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.
Good food—a public good
Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori
Amid growing food insecurity and climate breakdown, the EU must ensure healthy and sustainable food is accessible and affordable for all.
Civil society’s shrinking space
Amid the argument over the rule of law in some member states, civil society needs strengthening, embodying European values.