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Cinderella no more: mental health matters

It’s time to move mental health to the top of the European Union policy agenda.

Women are at the heart of the epidemic of mental ill-health—as healers as well as victims.

The scale of the crises Europe faces requires not only a raising of the policy stakes but a restructuring of its governance.

As the economic and political power of platforms soars, platform workers represent an emergent labour movement.

Whether Russia’s president ever ends up in handcuffs, the International Criminal Court’s indictment is a big step in the right direction.

Transitions from school to work must be improved for individual youngsters. Switzerland shows the way.

The Austrian social democrats are heading into a leadership contest, Robert Misik writes. For the SPÖ it could get bumpy.

Occupational stress has become endemic. It damages workers, their families, businesses and economies.

The west’s focus on the war in Ukraine risks a geopolitically counterproductive neglect of the urgent problems of the global south.

Europe’s relations with Africa and Asia are on the brink of collapse, and Russia is benefiting.

Many around the world have been left to deal with the effects of the US Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes on their own.

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.