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COP and women: change of political climate needed

Women, though disproportionately affected by climate change, are an afterthought when it comes to climate action.

The long process of levelling up the capacity of EU member states’ equality bodies is accelerating to a conclusion.

Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.

The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.

Those with seats at the table of the international financial institutions, Jayati Ghosh writes, cling to their power.

A spotlight on health and social care shows the need for an EU directive on musculo-skeletal disorders.

Tesla’s confrontation with Swedish workers highlights how solidarity must be enabled in a globalised Europe.

Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.

The ‘gig’-economy directive, a critical legacy of social rights from this EU term, is being held up by some member states.

Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.

Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.

Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.

Tackling energy poverty is key if the European Green Deal is to be transformative. That in turn requires a gender lens.

The new EU fiscal rules being finalised would still leave central- and eastern-European states such as Latvia in a bind.

Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.