Category: Society - Page 6

In difficult times, social cohesion has improved

Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.

We are running out of time on the climate crisis—yet ‘slow living’ is a key to its solution.

To sustain healthy and safe conditions at work, unprecedented action is urgently needed.

Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.

NGOs have increasingly looked to the courts for action on climate change. Now the Court of Justice of the EU is the focus.

The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU has set the social-policy ambition for the next European Commission to follow.

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.