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Why we need a European supply-chain act

Human-rights due diligence must be taken seriously—as the Brumadinho case showed.

This time, Branko Milanovic writes, it is labour—not capital—which will be globalised.

Pushbacks at Europe’s borders have not been compliant with the Refugee Convention. Nor would internal ones.

His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.

As Greece shows in extremis, the cultural sector is crying out for appropriate social policies.

Major emitters must deliver on critical ‘climate justice’ issues, such as financing for vulnerable countries.

Trade unions demand an ambitious directive on minimum wages and collective bargaining.

To change the pessimistic Zeitgeist, left-wing politics and radical art must renew their alliance, Robert Misik writes.

The idea that social-democratic parties should accommodate anti-immigrant sentiment is not only misguided but empirically wrong.

Europe’s largest energy companies are failing on their net-zero pledges.

Europe needs to address the risk come 2024 of facing not only a non-democratic superpower to its east—but to its west too.

The broad social determinants of poor mental health demand a holistic approach.

The EU must enforce robust human-rights due diligence in company supply chains.

The hike to €12 is also a strong signal on the planned European minimum-wages directive.

The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power, Paul Mason writes. It’s lost that muscle memory.