Politics

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

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

The Russian invasion of Ukraine demands a multi-pronged, enduring European response sending a very clear signal to the Kremlin.

The EU must enforce mandatory due diligence on corporations and their supply chains and involve workers in its strategy.

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

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.

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

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

As with the coronavirus, the global north needs to recognise its interdependence with Africa when it comes to financial flows.

Pandemic protests have mobilised the language of ‘freedom’. Progressives need to redefine that as emancipation.