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Global tax evasion: the good and the bad news

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.

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.

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

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

Tens of thousands of deaths in Europe are caused each year by exposure of workers to hazardous chemicals.

The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.

Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.