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The young generation needs quality traineeships

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.

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.