Six ways to tighten the circular economy
Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle.
A progressive green-growth narrative
Many voters regard investment in decarbonisation and socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes as economically harmful.
Refugees and Rwanda: the Tories’ road to perdition
Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.
Gender, energy poverty and the European Green Deal
Tackling energy poverty is key if the European Green Deal is to be transformative. That in turn requires a gender lens.
Becoming like Germany: hurdles and dilemmas
The new EU fiscal rules being finalised would still leave central- and eastern-European states such as Latvia in a bind.
Israel, Hamas and the Gaza war: delusion and reality
Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
The global consequences of the war in Ukraine
That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.
Taxing wealth to break billionaire dominance
As men in expensive suits discuss running the world at Davos this week, taxation can rein in their power.
Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy
Gesine Schwan and Robin Wilson
It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.
When ‘never again’ becomes ‘again and again’
The dalliance of the German AfD with neo-Nazis is echoed by the brazenness of the far right in Austria.
Identity politics: in defence of ‘old white men’
Arguments over who has a right to speak, Eszter Kováts writes, should give way to discussing what they say.
Agreement on migration or political gesture?
The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.
The EU must rise to the enlargement challenge
A host of obstacles to realising the enlargement perspective of the summit in December can be surmounted with political will.
The west must face reality in Ukraine
Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.
Germany: the ‘sick man’ of Europe—but ‘dumb’ as well?
The austerity package stemming from an adverse Constitutional Court ruling, Peter Bofinger writes, defies logic.