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EU trade policy in troubled times

Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.

Narendra Modi aims to return to power, Jayati Ghosh writes, against a backdrop of unprecedented inequality.

The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.

Healthcare workers will be protected from hazardous drugs by an EU law which had to be transposed by member states by today.

The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.

The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.

Europe must revise outdated grid plans to prepare for surging deployment of wind and solar power.

Unless the political dial can be turned, this year’s European Parliament elections will put the environment on the line.

We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.

Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.

Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.

Is the security council ‘demand’ for a ceasefire legally binding? Here is what international law says.

Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.

People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.

Fundamental change is needed as many women near burnout, amid mounting social challenges and work-life imbalance.