Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap
Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.
Transitions through workplace innovation
Investing in good jobs and employees is crucial to negotiating the green and digital transitions.
The Ukraine crisis: how to respond?
The narrative of universal human rights did for the Soviet Union. It’s the biggest threat to its successor, muscle-flexing in Ukraine.
Will Europe deliver on corporate responsibility?
The EU must enforce mandatory due diligence on corporations and their supply chains and involve workers in its strategy.
Why we need a European supply-chain act
Human-rights due diligence must be taken seriously—as the Brumadinho case showed.
The beginning of a new globalisation
This time, Branko Milanovic writes, it is labour—not capital—which will be globalised.
Apprehend, detain, deport—towards a securitised EU?
Pushbacks at Europe’s borders have not been compliant with the Refugee Convention. Nor would internal ones.
Boris Johnson’s last affair?
His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.
Doors closed, living on air
As Greece shows in extremis, the cultural sector is crying out for appropriate social policies.
Climate accountability now
Major emitters must deliver on critical ‘climate justice’ issues, such as financing for vulnerable countries.
Building social Europe, winning public confidence
Laurent Berger, Reiner Hoffmann, Wolfgang Katzian, Marie-Hélène Ska, Pepe Álvarez, Jarkko Eloranta, Luigi Sbarra and Andrzej Radzikowski
Trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining.
Beyond dystopia
To change the pessimistic Zeitgeist, left-wing politics and radical art must renew their alliance, Robert Misik writes.
Let them eat respect?
The idea that social-democratic parties should accommodate anti-immigrant sentiment is not only misguided but empirically wrong.
Europe’s utilities: net zero or not zero?
Europe’s largest energy companies are failing on their net-zero pledges.
Europe and the future of US democracy
Europe needs to address the risk come 2024 of facing not only a non-democratic superpower to its east—but to its west too.
A mental-health strategy for Europe
The broad social determinants of poor mental health demand a holistic approach.
Corporate due diligence—it’s in short supply
The EU must enforce robust human-rights due diligence in company supply chains.