Germany and Ukraine: avoiding refugee tensions
A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.
‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.
Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises
We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades
US electric-car maker faces Swedish union shock
Tesla faces its first ever strike after refusing to negotiate with the Swedish trade union IF Metall.
Equality for persons with disabilities on the move
The European Commission has put its disability cards on the table but it is not a full hand.
Global tax evasion: the good and the bad news
A genuine assault on individual and corporate tax evasion, Jayati Ghosh writes, would tap vast revenue resources.
Making the twin transition: skills at a premium
The European Union Year of Skills needs to deliver a ‘right to training’ for workers.
Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics
Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.
Gender equality: focus on the world of work
A rebalanced distribution of paid and unpaid work is a prerequisite of gender equality in employment.
Pay transparency: closing the gender pay gap
In segregated labour markets, women need hypothetical comparators and collective support to make equal-pay claims.
Dangers ahead for the platform-work directive
The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.
The EU and the inevitability of immigration
Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.
Israel, Hamas, war crimes and the ICC
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.
Energy union: including the public imperative
Pursuit of industrial competitiveness and renewable technologies must avoid a backlash from disengaged citizens.
Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse
Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.
Rethinking the nation, beyond nativism
Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.
The struggle for a just peace in Israel and Palestine
The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.