EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste
As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports today, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda.
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As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports today, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda.
A Spanish decree to provide more security for artists and other cultural workers should accelerate EU-level action.
Attitudes to women in the Ukrainian military are changing as thousands serve on the front lines.
Advancing gender equality in the EU depends on strong equality bodies in the member states.
The ‘securitisation’ of migration and asylum has not only meant drownings in the Mediterranean but also destitution in Europe’s cities.
This week the European Commission will publish a proposal to revivify social dialogue. It must be more than words.
Donatella Della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta and Lorenzo Cini
Digitalisation is not technologically determined but socially shaped—including by new forms of collective action.
EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.
With the ITUC General Council due to meet tomorrow, answers are urgently needed to the deeper issues raised by this affair.
The right to a fair trial is no longer guaranteed in Poland, say the activists protesting against strict abortion laws.
The pandemic increased inequality between member states but Europe-wide inequality has continued to decline, if more slowly.
A cocktail of insecurity, misinformation and mistrust imperil Europe’s future. Reliable, accessible data are at a premium.
Workers from across Europe descended on Brussels to demand adequate investment in health and social care.
Unemployed, underpaid, excluded—women with disabilities remain invisible in social policies related to employment.
In a digitalised world, accessibility is ever more at a premium for the visually impaired—who should be involved in finding solutions.
Elon Musk claims he bought the platform to ‘help humanity’ by investing in a public good—the world’s digital town square. But the people, not the pavement, make the town square.
Portugal, whose national plan is launched today, offers a model for a transversal and localised approach.
How have those Ukrainians on the ground committed to integration reacted to the invasion? Stories from its Intercultural Cities network offer inspiration.
Subsidising high energy costs might seem the obvious answer to the cost-of-living crisis—but it’s not.
The international football governing body’s action in Qatar conflicts with its own guidance on human rights.
The splurge of Christmas consumerism, especially in Britain, Kate Pickett writes, is partly driven by status anxiety.
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