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.
Israel’s evacuation order violates international law
Jane McAdam and Ben Saul
International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.
Poland’s historic election: democracy won
With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.
Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective
An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.
Make chemical safety an EU priority
Tens of thousands of deaths in Europe are caused each year by exposure of workers to hazardous chemicals.
Drawing the consequences from the Várhelyi affair
The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.
‘Trigger points’ and the polarisation entrepreneurs
Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.
Elections in Germany: the far right and the firewall
The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.
A fairer energy system with energy communities
Energy communities, fostering decentralised, renewable supply, need support with their additional social responsibilities.
Collective bargaining—key to business performance
Collective bargaining does not only improve workers’ wages and conditions. It also enhances company performance.
Overcrowded camps at Europe’s borders
Gemma Bird and Ella Dodd
Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.
On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
Germany’s true economic disease
Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.