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Why do we need a European digital public sphere?

Introducing a new series on a European digital public sphere, some contributors sketch what it is—and explain why we need it.

In the neoliberal era, global trade deals have come at the expense of workers. That can and must be reversed.

Using stigmatising language to describe the crisis at the Poland-Belarus border is wrong and plays into Lukashenka’s hands.

As COP26 continues, global social ambition will have to match that for the climate to secure a liveable world for all.

There is growing recognition in Europe of the need to steer an ecological industrial transition—just not enough.

A draft EU regulation on artificial intelligence risks exclusion of the social partners and lack of compliance with data-protection requirements.

As MEPs host the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen this afternoon, they need to step up their challenge to the surveillance capitalists.

Government leaders in Glasgow are still behind the climate curve but young activists might just drag the world ahead of it.

Next year has been designated ‘European Year of Youth’. The Conference on the Future of Europe must hold out a real prospect for young people.

Alongside ambitious emissions-reductions targets, well-functioning carbon markets are key to success at COP26 and on today’s agenda.

Ageing can and should be a positive process, which the Conference on the Future of Europe should embrace.

A European Parliament report offers hope to arts and cultural workers struggling amid the pandemic. The European Commission must not disappoint them.

National schemes sparing consumers the worst impact of soaring prices are no substitute for the EU redefining electricity as a public good.

Sheri Berman argues that democracy today faces a more insidious threat than coups d’état—slow strangulation by elected autocrats.

The European Commission must recognise deforestation is not only about the environment but human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.