The populist-radical-right impact on the welfare state
Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.
Global cities: crucibles of innovation
Urban geographer Ash Amin explains to Robin Wilson why modern metropoles can be hubs of innovation and dynamism.
The challenge of instant democracy
We need to find ways, Jan Zielonka writes, to ensure that ‘fast’ democracy is not ‘junk’ democracy.
Eradicating long-term unemployment
Social enterprises can offer the long-term unemployed an exit from the vicious circle of inactivity, France is showing.
Late retirement: possible for many, not for all
Finland was quick to respond to demographic ageing. What lessons can be learnt from its pension reforms?
Feminist governance—here to stay, or gone tomorrow?
Since 1975 feminists have helped establish new international frameworks. Success inadvertently sowed the seeds of populist campaigns.
Environmental policy: avoiding a social backlash
The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.
The promise and peril of generative AI
To ensure tools such as ChatGPT deliver widely shared benefits, we must learn from the last wave of digital innovation.
Strengthening democracy at work
The European Commission has just initiated consultation on more effective European Works Councils legislation.
E-fuels: a synthetic solution to the real problem
The European Union’s compromise on e-fuels opens the back door to an afterlife for the combustion engine.
The failure of Credit Suisse—not just a one-off
The bank was mismanaged but its collapse, Peter Bofinger writes, reveals a system of regulation with as many holes as a Swiss cheese.
After Michel exits, enter Marin?
Sanna Marin is the right person to preside over the European Council. But would she want to?
Ukraine’s relationship with the Belarusian opposition
As an ally to both, the European Union can facilitate their mutual understanding and engagement.
Tackling staff shortages in health and social care
On World Health Day, lessons learned from workers’ expressions of discontent must be translated into action.
Cinderella no more: mental health matters
It’s time to move mental health to the top of the European Union policy agenda.
Geniuses and ‘mad’ women: culture as mental cauteriser
Women are at the heart of the epidemic of mental ill-health—as healers as well as victims.
For a just and democratic climate transition
Julia Cagé, Lucas Chancel, Anne-Laure Delatte, Isabelle Ferreras, Stéphanie Hennette, Paul Magnette, Dominique Méda, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste and Antoine Vauchez
The scale of the crises Europe faces requires not only a raising of the policy stakes but a restructuring of its governance.