Time for a European industrial strategy
The next phase of the European Green Deal can be centred on a European industrial strategy.
Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric
Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.
A global legal precedent on climate change
Older Swiss women have set a global legal precedent for challenging their nation’s climate-change policy.
EU leaders may miss a rendezvous with history
The emerging strategic agenda for the next EU mandate reveals an ecological step backwards Europe cannot afford to take.
Stepping up the EU agenda on social citizenship
In a more precarious Europe, social protection and minimum-income guarantees must be more strongly embedded.
Will Boeing crash ‘shareholder value’?
Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.
Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability
As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’
The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.
Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling
Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.
Rethinking universalism and social rights
Social rights in Europe today require marrying 20th-century universalism with the meeting of diverse, complex needs.
Beyond the ‘backlash’: the green electoral agenda
Voters want a just transition and more, not less, green investment ahead of the European elections.
EU trade policy in troubled times
Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.
The double life of the Indian economy
Narendra Modi aims to return to power, Jayati Ghosh writes, against a backdrop of unprecedented inequality.
The world’s moral failure in Gaza
The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.
Danger: hazardous medicinal products at work
Healthcare workers will be protected from hazardous drugs by an EU law which had to be transposed by member states by today.
Protecting EU health policy from tobacco lobbying
The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.
Defending the rule of law in the EU
The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.