Social Europe - Page 49

Rare earths, geopolitics and a village called Ulefoss

Strategic autonomy meets local democracy at the resource frontier while Europe pushes ahead with the green transition.

Early childhood education and care workers must be recruited, rewarded, recognised and retained.

The war in Ukraine has two major implications for Europe and Europeans. Unfortunately, they are contradictory.

The wave of demonstrations against the Alternative für Deutschland is no surprise, given Germany’s postwar history.

The EU’s power sector is in the middle of a monumental shift from fossil-fuel to renewable generation.

Serbia is rapidly veering off its accession course, with a potentially fraudulent election and growing distance from EU foreign policy.

A key decision is awaited on the directive on corporate sustainability due diligence—facing rearguard corporate resistance.

Unconventional policies buttressed a decline in inequality and poverty in the EU. Renewed austerity might endanger it.

Technological innovation at work should be thought of in terms of supporting labour, not supplanting it.

As the European elections loom, legislation addressing the root causes of poverty must move to the top of the agenda.

In the next term the EU can advance an eco-social future which values participation in care and enables access as a universal basic service.

A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.

Corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid.

A Harlem schools programme shows how education can counter, rather than reinforce, brute-luck disadvantage.

Kyiv’s need for self-defence has pushed the country towards far-reaching expansion of the state’s economic role.