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.
Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy
It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.
When ‘never again’ becomes ‘again and again’
The dalliance of the German AfD with neo-Nazis is echoed by the brazenness of the far right in Austria.
Identity politics: in defence of ‘old white men’
Arguments over who has a right to speak, Eszter Kováts writes, should give way to discussing what they say.
Smersh: Putin reinstates Stalin’s anti-spy unit
The move may be seen as a further indication of the increasing clampdown on all forms of internal dissent in Russia.
Agreement on migration or political gesture?
The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.
The EU must rise to the enlargement challenge
A host of obstacles to realising the enlargement perspective of the summit in December can be surmounted with political will.
Why organisations must embrace ‘open source’
Sharing information accelerates the pace of co-innovation, facilitating inter- and multi-disciplinary research and study.
The west must face reality in Ukraine
Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.
Germany: the ‘sick man’ of Europe—but ‘dumb’ as well?
The austerity package stemming from an adverse Constitutional Court ruling, Peter Bofinger writes, defies logic.
EU enlargement, reform and the missing citizens
EU institutional reform should be about the citizenry. So what happened to the Conference on the Future of Europe?
The sustainability transition needs a new narrative
To ensure broad-based support for wholesale change, policy-makers will need to pursue an equitable transformation.