A European solidarity pact
Pierre-Yves Dermagne, Frank Vandenbroucke, Thomas Dermine, Meryame Kitir, Frédéric Daerden, Christie Morréale and Nawal Ben Hamou
Europe’s political leaders must rise to today’s challenges.
To quit Russian gas and oil, a green-transition jubilee
Europe must exit from its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by designating the next year as one of state-financed domestic conversions.
Europe’s solution to its energy dependence
Europe could simply buy fewer fossil fuels from Russia, maybe more from elsewhere—but there is a more fundamental answer.
Enhancing Europe’s equality framework
Minimum standards for national equality bodies are needed to ensure equal treatment applies equally across the EU.
Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?
The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.
Good food—a public good
Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori
Amid growing food insecurity and climate breakdown, the EU must ensure healthy and sustainable food is accessible and affordable for all.
Civil society’s shrinking space
Amid the argument over the rule of law in some member states, civil society needs strengthening, embodying European values.
Ukraine underlines urgency of EU green food goals
Isabel Paliotta and Célia Nyssens
Powerful industrial-agriculture lobbies are seeking to take advantage of the crisis to undermine EU commitments.
Fair pay for truck drivers
Martin Stuber and Susanne Wixforth
The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to hold out a prospect of a single market that works for its mobile workers.
The obsession to ‘complete the single market’
Multinationals are pushing to open new frontiers in the single market with a deregulatory agenda.
How to welcome Ukrainian refugees
Lisa Pelling begins a new Social Europe column with lessons for integration—especially from Sweden.
Europe needs drastic pesticide reduction
A leaked proposal from the European Commission would favour the agrochemical industry, not the citizenry.
How Europe can include Ukrainian refugees in society
Hrishabh Sandilya and Zhivka Deleva
European countries should start preparing to integrate the new arrivals for the long term.
Europe’s agriculture and care—mistreated migrants
Shana Cohen, Gerry Mitchell and Liran Morav
Informal migrant workers are denied basic social protection and the chance to integrate.
Rebutting the assaults on gender equality
László Andor and Laeticia Thissen
Tackling gender-based violence, on which an EU directive proposal is expected today, is key to restoring momentum to the feminist cause.