Housing cracks: multi-pronged approach required
Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.
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Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.
Frank Vandenbroucke, Francesco Corti and Gerrit Van de Mosselaer
The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU has set the social-policy ambition for the next European Commission to follow.
The Paralympics highlight the need for year-round activity to include people with disabilities in sports.
In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.
Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.
Revenge pornography is rife in the western Balkans. Ahead of EU accession, abuse laws need radical reform.
A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
Overwhelmed by the ‘polycrisis’, it is easy to miss some positive indicators of global development.
The proposed directive regulating traineeships must push the envelope on European Union social policy.
The right-wing government and employers have represented the reforms as in line with the ‘Nordic model’ they seek to dismantle.
In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.
Swiss workers face a better retirement outlook thanks to a successful trade-union initiative.
Social stigma against welfare benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain.
Robust enforcement of the European Social Charter is key to strengthening workers’ and trade-union rights across Europe.
The backdrop to the European Social Charter is the historical relationship between peace and social justice.
Visa rules need an overhaul to facilitate global co-operation in a runaway world, Ankita Anand writes.
The United Nations Summit of the Future risks missing opportunities to give value to public goods.
The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.
After the European Parliament elections, cleaners’ fight for justice goes into the next round.
Workers’ rights, fundamental to democracy, are under attack across the world—nowhere more so than in Europe.
The European Union is committed to ending homelessness by 2030. It will come down to political will.