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The European Investment Bank’s roadmap … to 2008

Chiara Casati and Frank Vanaerschot

The EIB proposes that housing renovation and energy efficiency be financed via ‘securitised’ loans.

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The ‘billions to trillions’ charade

Jayati Ghosh

Multilateral development banks believe private investment can meet developing economies’ climate and development needs.

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Is Europe too big for further enlargement?

Ana Palacio

EU institutions are struggling to chart a vision for 27 member states, so how can they accommodate as many as 36?

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Can a divided EU woo diverse emerging powers?

Anita Inder Singh

If the European Union is to win allies in the ‘global south’, the first thing it should do is stop talking about the ‘global south’.

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Longing of the new working class for a solidary ‘we’

Catrina Schläger, Jan Niklas Engels and Annika Arnold

A German study finds the new working class lacking in class consciousness yet strongly aware of social inequalities.

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‘No one can act with impunity’

Amy Maguire

The anticipated International Criminal Court arrest warrants in the Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice.

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Europe and the ‘global south’ must join forces

William Desmonts

Amid the confrontation between the United States and China, a reconstructed multilateralism can rein in the great powers.

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Time for supply-side policy: Thatcher versus Schumpeter

Peter Bofinger

Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.

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Russia’s battle of the ministries

Nina L Khrushcheva

Powerful groups seem increasingly willing to break the unspoken rule against public infighting. This does not bode well for Putin's regime.

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A new Green Deal: Europe’s defining impulse

Éloi Laurent

Far from the European Green Deal being exhausted, it needs renewing with social ambition.

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Femicide: why a specific crime is needed

Madhumita Pandey

Many countries are making the killing of women a specific crime. But laws are not enough.

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No ‘business as usual’ for European industry

Judith Kirton-Darling

The choices EU leaders make in the coming years will determine whether European industry has a long-term future.

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Workers’ rights—a casualty of the war in Ukraine

Inès Gil

The war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s trade union movement—and the lives of workers.

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A new European social contract must be green

Patrick ten Brink

Civil society stands up for a European pact for the future—green, social and fit for a one-planet economy.

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How to close the gender wage gap

Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

Iceland owes its progress in narrowing the gender wage gap to a decades-long equal-rights movement and public policies.

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

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