Category: Society - Page 6

Fossil-fuel power in Europe: the only way is down

For the first time, in the first half of this year wind and solar generated more electricity in the European Union.

It is time to open a discussion on Europe’s role in the protection of climate refugees.

The Paralympics highlight the need for year-round activity to include people with disabilities in sports.

Climate change is a global challenge, yet trade rules do not allow developing countries to break with neoliberal orthodoxy.

In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.

Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.

In the race against climate catastrophe, decades-old fossil-fuel-industry narratives retard the green transition.

Revenge pornography is rife in the western Balkans. Ahead of EU accession, abuse laws need radical reform.

A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.

Overwhelmed by the ‘polycrisis’, it is easy to miss some positive indicators of global development.

The proposed directive regulating traineeships must push the envelope on European Union social policy.

The right-wing government and employers have represented the reforms as in line with the ‘Nordic model’ they seek to dismantle.

People are not unaware of climate change, Lisa Pelling writes. But they find it difficult to imagine the green transition.

In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.

Swiss workers face a better retirement outlook thanks to a successful trade-union initiative.

Denmark’s tax on greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture is a reason for hope—but not complacency.