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Europe: world leader in eroding workers’ rights

Workers’ rights, fundamental to democracy, are under attack across the world—nowhere more so than in Europe.

While pledged to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies by 2025, EU member states are spending more than at any point since 2015.

Climate change is creating new risks, requiring a minimum protective threshold for all workers in Europe.

The European Union is committed to ending homelessness by 2030. It will come down to political will.

There remains a democratic majority in the European Parliament to tackle the economic and social insecurity fuelling populism.

The jolt for Narendra Modi, Jayati Ghosh writes, should also make western leaders look in the mirror.

Even if we overshoot the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Agreement, we must return to it as quickly as possible.

Anchored in classical social-democratic politics, the SPÖ’s vision for Austria offers signposts for the European political family.

A generation defined by economic insecurity is grabbing for a guardrail, not engaging for emancipation.

European workers enjoy more social support than five years ago but the far right and strict austerity are looming threats.

Council of Europe member states need to enhance their commitments to social and economic rights.

The elections might see not only gains for the right-wing populists but also, Robert Misik warns, a relapse into austerity.

A survey shows an alarming malaise in a sector heavily dominated by women and migrant workers.

A political reconceptualisation is critical if humanity’s hope for a sustainable global future is to be rescued.

Georgia’s law against ‘foreign influence’, pushed through the parliament, embodies Russia’s tool against freedom in the region.