Social Europe - Page 93

Hungarian businesses as EU rentiers

Amid the impasse over its national recovery plan, a study has shown the very low effectiveness of EU funding in Hungary.

Sections of the left which still think of the world in blocs, Sheri Berman writes, are guilty of blocked thinking.

Without active participation of women, a carbon-neutral future will remain out of reach.

An EU-wide scheme could address progressives’ concerns.

Europe’s political leaders must rise to today’s challenges.

Europe must exit from its dependence on Russian fossil fuel by designating the next year as one of state-financed domestic conversions.

Europe could simply buy fewer fossil fuels from Russia, maybe more from elsewhere—but there is a more fundamental answer.

Minimum standards for national equality bodies are needed to ensure equal treatment applies equally across the EU.

The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.

Amid growing food insecurity and climate breakdown, the EU must ensure healthy and sustainable food is accessible and affordable for all.

Surveys suggest most Russians support the use of military force in Ukraine. Is this an accurate picture?

Amid the argument over the rule of law in some member states, civil society needs strengthening, embodying European values.

Powerful industrial-agriculture lobbies are seeking to take advantage of the crisis to undermine EU commitments.

The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to hold out a prospect of a single market that works for its mobile workers.

Multinationals are pushing to open new frontiers in the single market with a deregulatory agenda.