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Corporate sustainability needs a gender lens

The draft EU directive on corporate sustainability remains gender-blind.

To tackle 21st-century challenges and ensure a sustainable future, we need a policy framework that recognises the value of human connection.

With a tenth general strike in France against the pension reform, an exit is needed from decrees and street clashes towards negotiated governance.

Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.

An ambitious Disability Card is key to making the European Union a reality for people with disabilities.

The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.

To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a global strategy for water as a common good.

Preserving nature, restoring soils and safeguarding biodiversity is essential—but calling it carbon removal is harmful.

Can the Czech Republic keep bucking the populist trend in central Europe affecting Poland, Slovakia and Hungary?

With the US turning interventionist, the EU will look foolish still backing ‘free markets’. Time for an enterprise policy.

If Ajay Banga is confirmed as World Bank president he will have to meet the demands of a global south eager for change.

Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.

Mass layoffs have hit large technology companies. Previously well-paid workers suddenly became the target of brutal firings.

The government’s efforts to deflect responsibility for the train disaster have failed to contain public outrage.

The EU has more to offer green industry—a stronger regulatory framework and credible carbon pricing.