Refugees: ‘how could we possibly get here?’
The European Union is crossing human-rights red lines with its Common European Asylum System.
How populists stay popular, from Ankara to Budapest
Once installed in power, authoritarian leaders such as Erdoğan and Orbán are very hard to dislodge.
Three choices for a more strategic Europe
The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.
Taking inequality seriously—and tackling it seriously
Rising inequality is a challenge for the multilateral system, Jayati Ghosh writes, which must first measure it properly.
Changing the face of trade-union leadership
Women are increasingly assuming leading roles in trade unions. Next comes changing organisational cultures.
Nature Restoration Law: an opportunity crucial to seize
The EU Nature Restoration Law has been saved but with its ambition deeply eroded—negotiators must restore its aspirations.
‘Social media’: the harms to women and girls
Europe needs to address a major factor in the mental-health crisis facing adolescent girls in particular.
Election in Spain: Faustian pact with far right looms?
Parliamentary elections this weekend in Spain could see the far-right party win a share of power.
Access to vaccines and medicines—a new paradigm
Vaccines and medicines must no longer be thought of as profitable commodities but public goods.
Taking aim at sellers’ inflation
Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.
Improving working life in France—and the EU
In France the debate is moving from longer to better working lives, Sofia Fernandes writes, but this is a Europe-wide challenge.
European Investment Bank: structural reform needed
Europe’s unwillingness to invest in public services and meet the greatest need is creating second-class citizens.
We only have one planet left to save
The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.
Why the Paris financing summit failed
The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.
European social dialogue for Europe’s social services
An EU committee for social dialogue in social services is a gain for the sector and an advance for the process.
The Supreme Court kicks away the ladder
The US Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action in university admissions has struck at the heart of the ‘American dream’.
Pandemic babies: how they have fared
Babies born during the pandemic are behind on communication at age two—but other developmental areas remain unaffected.