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Global tax evasion: the good and the bad news

Jayati Ghosh

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

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Making the twin transition: skills at a premium

Patricia Velicu and Isabelle Barthès

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

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Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics

Meryl Kenny

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

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Gender equality: focus on the world of work

Barbara Gerstenberger

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

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Pay transparency: closing the gender pay gap

Jane Pillinger

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

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Dangers ahead for the platform-work directive

Tim Christiaens

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

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The EU and the inevitability of immigration

Sergio Scandizzo

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

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Israel, Hamas, war crimes and the ICC

Catherine Gegout

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

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Energy union: including the public imperative

Patrick ten Brink

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

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Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse

Robert Misik

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

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Rethinking the nation, beyond nativism

Ash Amin

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

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The struggle for a just peace in Israel and Palestine

Nathalie Tocci and Akram Ezzamouri

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

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Israel’s evacuation order violates international law

Jane McAdam and Ben Saul

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

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Poland’s historic election: democracy won

Maria Skóra

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

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Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective

Bo Rothstein

An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.

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The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

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