Big Tech lobbying is derailing the AI Act
Behind closed doors, the companies have fiercely lobbied the European Union to leave advanced artificial-intelligence systems unregulated.
Green jobs: from challenge to opportunity
Greening our economies offers a unique opportunity to improve job quality in Europe. Justice for workers should be at the core.
Central-bank independence: the beginning of the end?
Rising interest rates have devalued central banks’ assets, creating demands for recapitalisation. Time for a debate.
EU member states threaten progress on air quality
The Council of the EU’s position would continue to expose the poorest to toxic air for years to come.
Ukraine and Moldova to test new accession process
Ukraine and Moldova have taken a huge step towards European Union membership but hazards lie ahead.
Italy, Albania, asylum and ‘European values’
Albania’s agreement to process offshore asylum-seekers heading for Italy, Lily Lynch writes, is not a good look.
Is Germany going authoritarian-left?
Sahra Wagenknecht's new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.
COP28 must focus on the climate-fuelled health crisis
The data show we are heading toward catastrophe, yet world leaders refuse to recognise the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels.
Prioritising profits over Europe’s childcare
As in adult long-term care, corporations are accruing rents from publicly funded childcare, exploiting workers and children.
Ensuring a just Europe for all children
More children are at risk of poverty than before the pandemic—early childhood education and care is critical.
How the war in Ukraine has transformed the EU
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a profound effect on the European Union, whose response is defining its trajectory.
COP28: the loss-and-damage fund
A year on from the breakthrough on climate-change funding, poor countries eye disappointment at the Dubai summit.
Israel-Palestine: what kind of solidarity?
The imperative of solidarity is with all those Jews and Palestinians who seek the solution neither Hamas nor Netanyahu wants.
War in Gaza: the silence of Europe’s leaders
The European Union must find a collective and distinctive voice to seek to rein in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
Social democracy in the global south at a crossroads
Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.
For socially fair European disability cards
The proposal from the European Commission would fall short of equal citizenship for disabled people.
Big tent: the social-democratic election formula
A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.