Standards for equality bodies—nearly done
The long process of levelling up the capacity of EU member states’ equality bodies is accelerating to a conclusion.
A sharp right turn: European Parliament election forecast
Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.
Europe and conflict prevention: better than cure
The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.
Can the IMF and the World Bank really be changed?
Those with seats at the table of the international financial institutions, Jayati Ghosh writes, cling to their power.
Musculo-skeletal disorders: lifting the strain
A spotlight on health and social care shows the need for an EU directive on musculo-skeletal disorders.
Time to recognise a fifth EU freedom: solidarity
Tesla’s confrontation with Swedish workers highlights how solidarity must be enabled in a globalised Europe.
Preparing Russia for permanent war
Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.
Platform-work directive: the clock is ticking
The ‘gig’-economy directive, a critical legacy of social rights from this EU term, is being held up by some member states.
Six ways to tighten the circular economy
Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.
A progressive green-growth narrative
Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.
Refugees and Rwanda: the Tories’ road to perdition
Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.
Gender, energy poverty and the European Green Deal
Tackling energy poverty is key if the European Green Deal is to be transformative. That in turn requires a gender lens.
Becoming like Germany: hurdles and dilemmas
The new EU fiscal rules being finalised would still leave central- and eastern-European states such as Latvia in a bind.
Israel, Hamas and the Gaza war: delusion and reality
Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
The global consequences of the war in Ukraine
That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.
Taxing wealth to break billionaire dominance
As men in expensive suits discuss running the world at Davos this week, taxation can rein in their power.
Gaza war: the genocide case against Israel
Whatever the legal determination, Israel already faces a symbolic reversal in the claim of 'genocide' against it in The Hague.