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Will states support corporate capture of the future?

Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona

The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.

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France, Europe and another election

Christophe Sente

French voters may have been recalled for a snap domestic election—but the underlying trends have been decades in the making.

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European Social Charter: more relevant than ever

Aoife Nolan

The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.

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Another, reindustrialised Europe is possible

Judith Kirton-Darling

The far right offers no answers to the challenges Europe faces in reinvigorating its industry amid the digital and green transitions.

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Populists back Putin with anti-Ukraine positions

Natasha Lindstaedt

Vladimir Putin looks to be a big winner from the far-right surge in the recent European Parliament elections.

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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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