Protecting EU health policy from tobacco lobbying
The European Commission should minimise meetings with the tobacco industry, publicise and fully minute them.
Defending the rule of law in the EU
The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.
Grids risk holding back Europe’s energy transition
Europe must revise outdated grid plans to prepare for surging deployment of wind and solar power.
Honesty needed to save just transition in EP elections
Unless the political dial can be turned, this year’s European Parliament elections will put the environment on the line.
The case for a radical, liberal left
We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.
Socialist hegemony: construction time again
Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.
Platform work directive—delivering rights for all
Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.
Women at work: doing different jobs, still unequal
Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.
The missing migrants: myriad preventable deaths
People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.
Women leaders in CSOs—overworked, overwhelmed
Fundamental change is needed as many women near burnout, amid mounting social challenges and work-life imbalance.
No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed
The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
Universal basic services: road to a just transition
Robbie Stakelum and Katy Wiese
Meeting social needs within planetary boundaries is the alternative to the religion of growth and the populist backlash.
Hungary’s unedifying political wordplays
The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.
Establishing safe staffing in health and social care
Jan Willem Goudriaan and Adam Rogalewski
Staff shortages represent a risk to occupational health and an EU directive should mandate member states to address them.
Gaza: UN humanitarian intervention needed
Luke Cooper, Mary Kaldor and Marika Theros
Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.