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Injustice is fuelling Europe’s energy crisis

Europe needs to shift from a system locked into climate-wrecking fuels, extractivism and autocracies—towards ‘energy justice’.

The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership and unshackled public investment.

Portugal, whose national plan is launched today, offers a model for a transversal and localised approach.

Robert Misik argues today’s extreme right is sponsoring a brutalisation comparable to historical fascism.

For the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the European Union is the enemy, not Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The European Union cannot rely on the United Nations process to deliver and must reinforce its own climate efforts.

Subsidising high energy costs might seem the obvious answer to the cost-of-living crisis—but it’s not.

Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces.

This winter, the European Union is facing a multidimensional crisis which could exacerbate intra-EU divisions and power asymmetries.

The over-reliance on interest-rate increases will likely lead to economic disaster in low- and middle-income countries.

Facing a deeply divided country and mounting global crises, Brazil’s president-elect has his work cut out.

Inter-firm differences are not only widening wage gaps but also threaten wider social division among workers.

A carve-out for the finance sector would water down the ambition of the EU’s human-rights due-diligence legislation.

In going along with rate rises, European governments are saving the European Central Bank—not their societies.

The splurge of Christmas consumerism, especially in Britain, Kate Pickett writes, is partly driven by status anxiety.