Category: Society - Page 7

Leaving the Energy Charter Treaty—it’s not so easy

The European Union has given notice of its withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty. There is still much to do.

Robust enforcement of the European Social Charter is key to strengthening workers’ and trade-union rights across Europe.

The backdrop to the European Social Charter is the historical relationship between peace and social justice.

Visa rules need an overhaul to facilitate global co-operation in a runaway world, Ankita Anand writes.

The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.

The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.

After the European Parliament elections, cleaners’ fight for justice goes into the next round.

Workers’ rights, fundamental to democracy, are under attack across the world—nowhere more so than in Europe.

While pledged to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies by 2025, EU member states are spending more than at any point since 2015.

Climate change is creating new risks, requiring a minimum protective threshold for all workers in Europe.

The European Union is committed to ending homelessness by 2030. It will come down to political will.

Even if we overshoot the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Agreement, we must return to it as quickly as possible.

Council of Europe member states need to enhance their commitments to social and economic rights.

A survey shows an alarming malaise in a sector heavily dominated by women and migrant workers.

A political reconceptualisation is critical if humanity’s hope for a sustainable global future is to be rescued.

EU instruments encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining are very valuable—but not if employers can walk away.