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Pandemic preparedness: new vaccines are not enough

Rapid deployment of vaccines is the key lesson being taken from the Covid-19 pandemic. It should not be the only one.

Whether the presumption of employment would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate.

The European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making.

How can a civilian power such as the EU, Jan Zielonka asks, contend with uncivilised behaviour?

The measures taken by the EU on asylum should be guided by a lawful and sincere humanitarianism.

The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.

Exiled trade unionists continue their work, hoping to return to Belarus one day to rebuild their society.

The world’s largest companies cannot be given free rein in their competition to capitalise artificial intelligence.

The west’s lack of engagement with Africa in recent years left behind a vacuum China and Russia have eagerly filled.

Transport of goods is the new slave-producing machine in Europe—a powerful tool for social dumping.

A Schumpeterian perspective provides new insights for fiscal policy in Europe, Peter Bofinger writes.

The new green race between the United States and the European Union threatens to leave developing countries behind.

There is more clarity about hazardous medicinal products but awareness still needs to be raised to protect workers.

Global challenges have left only one option off the table for the European Union—inertia.

Addressing economic inequality is key to restoring political participation and democratic legitimacy.