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Equality for persons with disabilities on the move

The European Commission has put its disability cards on the table but it is not a full hand.

A genuine assault on individual and corporate tax evasion, Jayati Ghosh writes, would tap vast revenue resources.

The European Union Year of Skills needs to deliver a ‘right to training’ for workers.

Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.

A rebalanced distribution of paid and unpaid work is a prerequisite of gender equality in employment.

In segregated labour markets, women need hypothetical comparators and collective support to make equal-pay claims.

The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.

Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.

The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.

Pursuit of industrial competitiveness and renewable technologies must avoid a backlash from disengaged citizens.

Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.

Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.

The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.

International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.

With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.