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G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures

Thorvaldur Gylfason

Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.

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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.

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Nagorno-Karabakh: it’s not over yet

Svante Lundgren

The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its 'reliable energy partner'.

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Sweden’s climate policy—off the rails

Lisa Pelling

A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.

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Detroit, Joe Biden and a union renaissance

Paul Knott

For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.

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The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction

Ronald Janssen

Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.

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Prostitution is not a free choice for women

Lina Gálvez Muñoz

The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.

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Abuse at work: who bears the brunt?

Agnès Parent-Thirion and Viginta Ivaskaite-Tamosiune

When it comes to violence in the workplace, women and frontline workers are disproportionately the victims.

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Ukraine’s cause: momentum is diminishing

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko

In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.

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Vienna social-housing model: celebrated but misused

Gabu Heindl

The ‘Vienna model’ has been distorted to embrace private investment but its real redefinition should be ecological.

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Social democracy versus the nativist right

Jan Zielonka

If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.

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Which comes first—Big Toxics’ profits or health?

Vicky Cann

Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying.

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Ukraine: journalists in Russia’s sights

Kelly Bjorkland and Simon Smith

Reports suggest that Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine—which is a war crime.

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EU enlargement—back to the future

Emilija Tudzarovska

How the European Union failed to deal with the collapse of Yugoslavia has lessons for the imperative of enlargement today.

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Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?

Philip Freeman and Jan Willem Goudriaan

The European Health Data Space should serve patients and healthcare workers, not private profit.

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