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Ukraine is losing and the west faces a stark choice

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko

Ukraine is losing the war. If the west does not help now, it will face a resurgent and aggressive Russia.

European elections: a call for accessibility

Vilmantas Balčikonis

More is needed for visually impaired voters—and candidates—to exercise their political rights.

Migrant labour in the ‘gig’ economy: progress or trap?

Agnieszka Piasna and Wouter Zwysen

Platform work is often presented as a stepping-stone for migrant workers. It may not however feel so benign to them.

When less is more: reducing Europe’s material footprint

Diego Marin

Beyond cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, the key to a sustainable planet lies in resource management.

Sex trafficking in Romania and Moldova

Charlotte Freer

The charges faced in Romania by a high-profile ‘influencer’ highlight how the region has become a hub for sex trafficking.

Time for a European industrial strategy

Linda Kalcher and Neil Makaroff

The next phase of the European Green Deal can be centred on a European industrial strategy.

Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric

Paul Mason

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

Aoife Daly

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

Patrick ten Brink

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

Bea Cantillon, Maurizio Ferrera and Maarten Keune

In a more precarious Europe, social protection and minimum-income guarantees must be more strongly embedded.

Will Boeing crash ‘shareholder value’?

Katharina Pistor

Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.

Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability

Joanne Krus and Gemma Bird

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’

Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano and John Hendy

The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.

Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling

Wouter Zwysen

Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.

Rethinking universalism and social rights

Maurizio Ferrera

Social rights in Europe today require marrying 20th-century universalism with the meeting of diverse, complex needs.

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In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.
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The European Employment and Social Rights Forum was back in Brussels and online on 3-4 March 2026

This year’s edition addressed the EU’s response to the challenges many people face today: the rising cost of living, job insecurity, and changes in the labour market. Opinion leaders, policymakers, businesses, academics and civil society are invited to explore bold ideas to support Europe’s greatest strength: its people.

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