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Social dialogue: urgent to turn words into deeds

EU instruments encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining are very valuable—but not if employers can walk away.

The only exit from the ‘polycrisis’ is a corridor of sufficiency between meeting need and avoiding excess.

Rejecting bans on particularly hazardous chemicals, EU ministers have sought to dilute revised legislation on toy safety.

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

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

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

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’.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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