Can Universal Basic Income really improve mental health?
Recent UBI trials reveal that guaranteed income provides immediate mental health relief, but sustaining long-term benefits may depend on lasting economic security.
Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU
What should Europe do about inequality? The start is to recognise some of its citizens are more equal than others.
The canker among Europe’s roses
Europe’s love for flowers, Ankita Anand writes, ignores their often tainted roots.
Trust in crisis: Europe’s social contract under threat
The corrosion of trust underlies many of the social pathologies of today—but there are solutions.
Between the cracks: third-country posted workers
Effective transnational co-operation is required to protect third-country posted workers from abuses.
Sub-minimum wages: young people, old attitudes
Laggard European Union member states must act to ensure abolition of sub-minimum rates of pay.
In difficult times, social cohesion has improved
Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
Housing cracks: multi-pronged approach required
Europe’s housing crisis can be solved. But a range of policy tools is needed to do so.
Europe’s social agenda: raising the game
The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU has set the social-policy ambition for the next European Commission to follow.
Running towards inclusion: the power of sports
The Paralympics highlight the need for year-round activity to include people with disabilities in sports.
Social dialogue: defending democracy in practice
In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.
Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?
Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.
Pornography, patriarchy and the western Balkans
Revenge pornography is rife in the western Balkans. Ahead of EU accession, abuse laws need radical reform.
Labour’s labour agenda—and a European reset
A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
Development: better days could lie ahead (yes, really)
Overwhelmed by the ‘polycrisis’, it is easy to miss some positive indicators of global development.
The young generation needs quality traineeships
The proposed directive regulating traineeships must push the envelope on European Union social policy.
The assault on labour rights in Finland
The right-wing government and employers have represented the reforms as in line with the ‘Nordic model’ they seek to dismantle.
Social rights—securing Europe’s future
In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.
Pensions in Switzerland: how a rise was won
Swiss workers face a better retirement outlook thanks to a successful trade-union initiative.
The destitution that sets the UK apart from Europe
Social stigma against welfare benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain.
European Social Charter—political will needed
Robust enforcement of the European Social Charter is key to strengthening workers’ and trade-union rights across Europe.
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