How schools can make refugee children welcome
Many refugee children are highly traumatised. Schools can offer a place of sanctuary and a welcoming culture.
Quick commerce—not turning a fast buck
The good news is most ‘q-commerce’ workers have employment contracts. The bad news is they still get squeezed.
The discreet (but dubious) charm of tax treaties
Jayati Ghosh writes that, as with much else, bilateral tax treaties binding rich and poor countries are not equal partnerships.
Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas
As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity.
EU funds need stronger social conditionality
Claes-Mikael Ståhl, Judith Kirton-Darling, Jan Willem Goudriaan, Kristjan Bragason and Oliver Roethig
The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners.
Not so much a shortage of skills as a shortage of pay
Labour shortages following the pandemic have increased most and are most severe in jobs with lower wages and poorer conditions.
Russia’s appeal to ‘warrior masculinity’
Putin's Victory Day pitch for more military recruits is unlikely to encourage men to enlist in the army.
Greening eastern Europe’s growth engines
The region has moved far too slowly in an era in which decarbonisation and climate resilience are essential.
Euronews: public-interest journalism in jeopardy
Workers and their unions are today sounding the alarm for media independence at the heart of Europe.
Steel’s power—and politicians’ lack of mettle
The steel industry’s strategic importance and lobbying power have shielded it from a tightening of the Emissions Trading System.
Elevating the Cinderellas of social care
The pandemic put care workers under terrible pressure, Lisa Pelling writes. Yet unions have been able to win greater recognition for them.
Introducing AI at work: workers must be involved
Rather than being displaced or controlled by AI, workers should be co-designers of its workplace deployment.
Ukraine reforms welfare system as cost of war rises
Social support will become means-tested as millions of Ukrainians face war, displacement and poverty.
Europe needs a social compass
Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential.
Oh, Europe!?—a vision is still needed
Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.
Financing the common good
The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.
How to prevent a housing crisis
The cost-of-living crisis threatens to tip over into a housing crisis. Prevention is better than cure.