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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.

Rather than being displaced or controlled by AI, workers should be co-designers of its workplace deployment.

Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential.

Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.

The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.

The cost-of-living crisis threatens to tip over into a housing crisis. Prevention is better than cure.

The European Investment Bank is a public institution—yet the public good is not its agenda.

Workers are under tremendous pressure amid the cost-of-living crisis. But trade unions are showing resilience to inspire.

Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.

Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.

Recent developments in artificial intelligence have rekindled fears of technological unemployment—fuelled by technological determinism.

Europe’s cities have many social outsiders. Lessons are emerging on how ‘housing first’ can include them.

The European Commission’s proposed reform of the electricity market would be a sticking plaster for a failing system.

Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.

Eszter Kováts writes that censoriousness is not the way to deal with legitimate concerns about social-justice claims.