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How to welcome Ukrainian refugees

Lisa Pelling

Lisa Pelling begins a new Social Europe column with lessons for integration—especially from Sweden.

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Capturing the pessimists—exploiting status concerns

Phil Howe, Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber

Concerns about status can sustain parties which promise change through nationhood.

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Europe needs drastic pesticide reduction

Martin Dermine

A leaked proposal from the European Commission would favour the agrochemical industry, not the citizenry.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Covid-19 didn’t cause the care crisis—privatisation did

Rosa Pavanelli

The scandal of Europe’s biggest eldercare operator highlights how a public good has been turned into a private asset class.

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The global struggle for democracy is in Ukraine

Susan Stokes

Russia’s military assault on Ukraine caps a period of political attacks on democracy around the world.

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Reclaim your space—a feminist outcry for equality

Zita Gurmai and Camila Garfias

There is so much to do to bring about gender equality in Europe. Much too much for only one day of the year.

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Taking the heat out of energy prices

Peter Bofinger

Instead of higher interest rates, Peter Bofinger urges lower VAT on energy and temporary suspension of the CO2 trading system.  

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Ukraine’s EU membership: still some way off

Dorina Baltag

There has been a positive response to the appeal by the Ukrainian president for EU membership. But it won’t come soon.

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Services, value chains and the global south

Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner

Insertion into global value chains in services is no hand-up panacea for the least-developed countries.

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From shock therapy to Putin’s war

Katharina Pistor

Putin is alone responsible for the war in Ukraine but prominent westerners played a key role in Russia's post-Soviet trajectory.

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Labour’s opportunity: a multi-party government

Frances Foley

If the Conservatives are to be defeated at the next Westminster election, Labour must back a coalition alternative.             

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Democracy and security in the EU’s neighbourhood

Nicoletta Pirozzi

Nicoletta Pirozzi opens a Social Europe column by sketching the political vision the EU must hold out to its neighbours such as Ukraine.

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