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After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too

Paul Mason

Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party.

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American business will regret writing off democracy

Katharina Pistor

By endorsing Donald Trump’s run for the US presidency, business leaders are embracing a man with only contempt for the law.

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European elections: political squalls ahead

Quentin Peel

The shift in the centre of gravity of the European Parliament could make for a fractious next term.

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Euro-elections demand progress, not prevarication

David Gow

The far-right challenge in the European elections was overblown. Just transition, rather than rowing back, is the answer.

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Cleaners come out from the shadows to mobilise

Mark Bergfeld

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

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Myanmar: award for exiled trade-union leader

Khaing Zar Aung

This is the author's acceptance speech, receiving the the Arthur Svensson Prize to promote trade-union rights in Oslo.

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Europe: world leader in eroding workers’ rights

Luc Triangle

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

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Fossil-fuel subsidies: a litany of broken promises

Olivier Vardakoulias and Giulia Nardi

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

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Heat stress at work—a political emergency

Aude Cefaliello

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

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EPOCH-making?—the tool to end homelessness

Timo Weishaupt and Christian Hinrichs

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

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The European elections: the right lessons to learn

Esther Lynch

There remains a democratic majority in the European Parliament to tackle the economic and social insecurity fuelling populism.

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What the Indian election result means for Europe

Jayati Ghosh

The jolt for Narendra Modi, Jayati Ghosh writes, should also make western leaders look in the mirror.

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The 1.5C target for global heating must prevail

Joeri Rogelj

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

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Twenty-four points for social democracy

Gabriela Greilinger

Anchored in classical social-democratic politics, the SPÖ’s vision for Austria offers signposts for the European political family. 

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Will the young save Europe from the rise of the far right?

Albena Azmanova

A generation defined by economic insecurity is grabbing for a guardrail, not engaging for emancipation.

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European elections: beware the ‘little man’ sorcerers

Marie-Hélène Ska, Miranda Ulens and Olivier Valentin

European workers enjoy more social support than five years ago but the far right and strict austerity are looming threats.

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Reinvigorating the European Social Charter

Rita Patrício and Iain Byrne

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

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The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out! 

The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

The new issue of the magazine also reflects on how we struggle to keep pace with AI innovations, examines the uncertainties surrounding the execution of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the risk to human rights posed by the Return Regulation, and focuses on the EU Commission's newly proposed Industrial Accelerator Act.

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