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Sub-minimum wages: young people, old attitudes

Laggard European Union member states must act to ensure abolition of sub-minimum rates of pay.

Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.

Giorgia Meloni’s government is squandering a golden opportunity to reverse Italy’s economic decline.

After the elections in eastern-German Länder and ahead of those in Austria, Robert Misik casts an unsentimental eye on far-right voters.

We are running out of time on the climate crisis—yet ‘slow living’ is a key to its solution.

In today’s runaway world, Einstein’s ideal of ‘abolishing war’ becomes unavoidable rather than impractical.

To sustain healthy and safe conditions at work, unprecedented action is urgently needed.

Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.

The results in Saxony and Thuringia show the party does not have to moderate its positions to have electoral success.

NGOs have increasingly looked to the courts for action on climate change. Now the Court of Justice of the EU is the focus.

The new government’s goals are modest. But economic reality may force it to follow changing public opinion.

Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.

Europe must not turn its eyes away from the huge death toll of journalists in Gaza.

The concentration of wealth is a global issue and it is getting worse.

The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU has set the social-policy ambition for the next European Commission to follow.