Will states support corporate capture of the future?
The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.
France, Europe and another election
French voters may have been recalled for a snap domestic election—but the underlying trends have been decades in the making.
European Social Charter: more relevant than ever
The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.
Another, reindustrialised Europe is possible
The far right offers no answers to the challenges Europe faces in reinvigorating its industry amid the digital and green transitions.
Populists back Putin with anti-Ukraine positions
Vladimir Putin looks to be a big winner from the far-right surge in the recent European Parliament elections.
After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too
Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party.
American business will regret writing off democracy
By endorsing Donald Trump’s run for the US presidency, business leaders are embracing a man with only contempt for the law.
European elections: political squalls ahead
The shift in the centre of gravity of the European Parliament could make for a fractious next term.
Euro-elections demand progress, not prevarication
The far-right challenge in the European elections was overblown. Just transition, rather than rowing back, is the answer.
Cleaners come out from the shadows to mobilise
After the European Parliament elections, cleaners’ fight for justice goes into the next round.
Myanmar: award for exiled trade-union leader
This is the author's acceptance speech, receiving the the Arthur Svensson Prize to promote trade-union rights in Oslo.
Europe: world leader in eroding workers’ rights
Workers’ rights, fundamental to democracy, are under attack across the world—nowhere more so than in Europe.
Fossil-fuel subsidies: a litany of broken promises
While pledged to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies by 2025, EU member states are spending more than at any point since 2015.
Heat stress at work—a political emergency
Climate change is creating new risks, requiring a minimum protective threshold for all workers in Europe.
EPOCH-making?—the tool to end homelessness
The European Union is committed to ending homelessness by 2030. It will come down to political will.
The European elections: the right lessons to learn
There remains a democratic majority in the European Parliament to tackle the economic and social insecurity fuelling populism.
What the Indian election result means for Europe
The jolt for Narendra Modi, Jayati Ghosh writes, should also make western leaders look in the mirror.