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The future of Europe: who holds the baton?

Political leaders must not turn the Conference on the Future of Europe into another EU black box.

As inflation has re-emerged, so have calls for general monetary tightening.

The pandemic has focused attention on health and safety. But workers were already dying just trying to make a living.

The EU’s controversial proposal to label nuclear energy ‘green’ could jeopardise the future of the German coalition.

The Recovery and Resilience Facility is important but will not mobilise sufficient green investment by itself.

There is no environmental, climate or economic reason to include nuclear and fossil gas in the EU investment taxonomy.

‘Inequality’ is never the official cause of a death. But, writes Jayati Ghosh, that doesn’t mean it’s not.

Social democracy is flatlining in a France which otherwise betrays common European features.

The European Parliament has just voted on the Digital Services Act, crucial for internet regulation.

The French president has made ‘sovereignty’ a buzzword. Yet corporations seem to enjoy more than citizens.

The French EU presidency provides an opportunity to advance a ‘developmentalist’ strategy for the green transition.

The EU has often been thought of as primarily a market-making mechanism. Yet it is above all a cultural project.

Rich-country governments are not adequately addressing the causes of food-price inflation—the world’s poor continue to suffer as a result.

Platform power is often traced to markets, implying anti-trust action. The source, and the solution, lie elsewhere.

How to avoid ecological policies having adverse social effects? Make the associated services (partly) free.