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Climate leadership needs more women

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Women face the greatest risks from environmental crises and have been shown to deliver better environmental policy results.

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Seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs

Branko Milanovic

The episode has proved, Branko Milanovic writes, that Russia is not ruled by a few rich men but by a single autocrat.

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Public pensions push profit over care

Mark Hancock and Jan Willem Goudriaan

The forthcoming European Care Strategy must seek to return long-term care to public control.

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Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine?

Svetlana Erpyleva

Interviews by Russian researchers have shed light on the different groups in Russian society who are pro-war—and why.

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What we need for long-term peace and prosperity

Margaret Kuhlow

Recent crises have exposed the shortcomings of our international institutions and growth-obsessed economic models.

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AI threatens to increase inequality

Per Molander

The debate on AI has focused mainly on its potential effect on employment. The impact on equality should not however be missed.

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A single market for the future

Philippe Pochet

War in Ukraine, the climate challenge and the concept of strategic autonomy are paving the way for a new type of single market.

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A new era of containment?

Robert Misik

The security architecture of the past 50 years is in ruins. Robert Misik maps a policy for the new cold war.

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Ukrainian refugees and vaccination challenges

Vesna Trifunović and Stuart Blume

We are facing two huge crises: Ukraine and the pandemic. But no one is putting them together.

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A new age of party democracy

Emilija Tudzarovska

Critical to the rebuilding of crumbled political pillars such as the Parti Socialiste in France is the installation of party democracy.

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Artificial intelligence: filling the gaps

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers.

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Why Europe can’t break free from the gas lobby

Pascoe Sabido

Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.

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What to do with Russian oil and gas

Franz Nauschnigg

The European Union should apply import tariffs, instead of imposing an embargo.

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The never-ending pandemic

Danny Dorling

Wishful thinking has left many in Europe unaware that we are now stuck on a low road of significant, burdensome infection.

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The French unwilling willingness

Éloi Laurent

The renewed polarisation between Macron and Le Pen in the presidential election conceals a pas de deux.

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