A fairer energy system with energy communities
Energy communities, fostering decentralised, renewable supply, need support with their additional social responsibilities.
Collective bargaining—key to business performance
Ramón Rueda López and Jaime Aja Valle
Collective bargaining does not only improve workers’ wages and conditions. It also enhances company performance.
Overcrowded camps at Europe’s borders
Gemma Bird and Ella Dodd
Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.
On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
Germany’s true economic disease
Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.
Slovakia: could this be Fico’s last hurrah?
The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.
How finance became the problem
Finance has become the driving force behind most decision-making. We seem to have unlearned politics.
Making EU economic governance fit for purpose
Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.
Backtracking on a green and just transition?
Patrick ten Brink and Faustine Bas-Defossez
The Granada declaration will signal whether Europe’s leaders can rise to the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.
G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures
Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
Powering up: the EU and solar energy
Francesco Crespi, Dario Guarascio, Serenella Caravella and Giacomo Cucignatto
A new approach is needed towards the photovoltaic industry in Europe.
Sweden’s climate policy—off the rails
A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.
Detroit, Joe Biden and a union renaissance
For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.
The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction
Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.
Prostitution is not a free choice for women
The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.