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European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work

The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front of the platform companies.

Financing post-pandemic recovery via EU borrowing has proved remarkably straightforward. So why keep it temporary?

The proposal for an EU directive on platform work about to emerge is welcome, yet insufficient—and no substitute for national action.

Irregular pay is one of the criticisms levelled at platform companies. But some of the time there is no pay at all.

Preventing 1984-style monitoring of workers requires a rebalancing of workplace power, based on legal regulation and human dignity.

Many have lost all trust in politics, Robert Misik writes. The protests against vaccination and anti-virus rules however turn this into madness.

The pandemic has encouraged a re-evaluation of key migrant workers. A botched reform in Portugal has however revealed the pitfalls.

Responses to the pandemic have upended the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to macroeconomic policies engendering widening inequality.

Most livestock land will have to be repurposed as carbon sinks to remove the huge global emissions related to food production.

Many regard caring for the Earth and others as a means to an end. Everything changes if we view care as an essential set of relationships.

Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.

Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.

The growing challenges facing Europe, beyond recovery from the pandemic, require a budget to match.

It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.

Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.