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No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed

The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.

With access to food aid denied by Israel, two-thirds of a million Gazans already face 'catastrophe'.

Meeting social needs within planetary boundaries is the alternative to the religion of growth and the populist backlash.

The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.

Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.

The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.

Gross domestic product is often presented as encapsulating US success. But on broader benchmarks Germany performs better.

The economic transformation required by ecological crises implies new capabilities for workers to develop alternative plans.

The untapped potential of European welfare states must be unleashed in light of the climate emergency.

In the next mandate, the EU needs to set clear rules for private investment in the green transition, to avoid past mistakes.

Europe has a leaky buildings stock but the revised directive on their energy performance will still leave some in the cold.

The European Parliament should be setting the gold standard in ensuring the wellbeing of its staff.

Ten years after Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, annexed Crimea, its grip on the peninsula looks shaky.

Europe needs massive investment, Peter Bofinger writes. Yet the ECB’s restrictive monetary stance means it is set to fall this year.