Feeling the heat: Europe’s firefighters need support
Firefighter numbers have been cut, when investment—especially in prevention—is key to stemming Europe’s wildfires.
Collective bargaining: Romania shows the way
Romania’s recent law strengthening collective bargaining offers a way forward for the European Union.
Why labour can be in short supply
Improving job quality is key to addressing labour shortages In the European Union.
Social protection: enhancing benefit take-up
Europe’s social-protection schemes are full of holes, affecting the most vulnerable most—but they can be fixed.
Exchanging glances: Serbia seduces illiberal America
The government of Aleksandar Vučić is trying to clean up its image, Lily Lynch writes—without having to clean up its act.
Cutting methane emissions: greater ambition needed
A proposed EU regulation on methane emissions must be strengthened, not diluted, to address a planet on fire.
After the ‘Beijing consensus’
China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.
Trade policy: a call for solidarity
The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.
Russia is winning the information war
In Europe the struggle by Ukraine has largely been seen as a defence of universal norms. But around the world that is far from universal.
Lean work and a narrowing path to ‘good jobs’
Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.
Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab
The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.
Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: what future now?
The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies.
Lachin corridor needs more than EU tunnel vision
If Europe does not wake up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, it could be complicit in genocide.
Olaf Scholz, the improbable role model
A state that protects—and a bulwark for democracy and modernity. Is this, Robert Misik asks, the new paradigm of the democratic left?
World Cup kiss: feminist progress meets backlash
Spain’s #MeToo moment shows however that things are changing.
Facing Europe’s huge challenges
The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine.
Facing the social realities of the green transition
Hans Dubois and Ana Jesus
Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.