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How the public loses out when politicians cash inPolitics

How the public loses out when politicians cash in

Katharina Pistor

Gerhard Schröder has clearly breached the trust of the German people.

Ukraine and Europe’s defence spendingPolitics

Ukraine and Europe’s defence spending

Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Adriano Cozzolino

Europe’s reaction to the Ukraine crisis will do much to define what kind of Europe it is to be.

The Ukraine war and NATO’s renewed credibilityPolitics

The Ukraine war and NATO’s renewed credibility

Paul Rogers

On the biggest issues threatening people around the world in the coming years, NATO is well-nigh irrelevant.

A European constituency for a European public spherePolitics

A European constituency for a European public sphere

Domènec Ruiz Devesa

The European Parliament’s support for a pan-European constituency could transform the 2024 elections.

EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grabEcology

EU hydrogen targets—a neo-colonial resource grab

Pascoe Sabido and Chloé Mikolajczak

The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies.

Control the vampire companiesEconomy

Control the vampire companies

Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.

Australian Labor’s climate policyEcology

Australian Labor’s climate policy

Anna Skarbek and Anna Malos

The ‘teals’ and Greens will turn up the heat on Labor’s climate policy. Here’s what to expect.

Peace and trade—a new perspectiveEconomy

Peace and trade—a new perspective

Gustav Horn

The Ukraine crisis has shown not only that unlimited trade is impossible but also that it needs to be regulated by values.

COP15: negotiations must come out of the shadowsEcology

COP15: negotiations must come out of the shadows

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois

Biodiversity receives less attention than climate, although the collapse of the planet’s biomass is as worrying as climate change.

The uneven battlefield of reproductive rightsPolitics

The uneven battlefield of reproductive rights

Andrea Pető

Progressives have been too slow to appreciate the attack on reproductive rights in eastern Europe and the US.

Ukraine is no reason to invest in gasEcology

Ukraine is no reason to invest in gas

Xavier Sol

The EIB must resist pressure to finance liquefied-natural-gas projects and champion zero-carbon public transport instead.

Sweden’s schools: Milton Friedman’s wet dreamSociety

Sweden’s schools: Milton Friedman’s wet dream

Lisa Pelling

Lisa Pelling explains how ‘freedom of choice’ has wrought a vicious circle of inequality and underperformance.

Access to justice in the ‘Fit for 55’ packageEcology

Access to justice in the ‘Fit for 55’ package

Frederik Hafen

Implementing the ‘Fit for 55’ package depends on citizens and NGOs being able to hold governments to account.

Reconstruction: time for transformative ideasPolitics

Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas

Kalina Arabadjieva, Nicola Countouris, Bianca Luna Fabris and 1 more

Deep structural crises need tackling.

The new French left—the sociology of socialismPolitics

The new French left—the sociology of socialism

Halil Karaveli

The realignment on the French left highlights the basic requirement that the left unite the working and professional classes.

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Bilan social / Social policy in the EU: state of play 2021 and perspectives

The new edition of the Bilan social 2021, co-produced by the European Social Observatory (OSE) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), reveals that while EU social policy-making took a blow in 2020, 2021 was guided by the re-emerging social aspirations of the European Commission and the launch of several important initiatives. Against the background of Covid-19, climate change and the debate on the future of Europe, the French presidency of the Council of the EU and the von der Leyen commission must now be closely scrutinised by EU citizens and social stakeholders.


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Living and working in Europe 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to be a defining force in 2021, and Eurofound continued its work of examining and recording the many and diverse impacts across the EU. Living and working in Europe 2021 provides a snapshot of the changes to employment, work and living conditions in Europe. It also summarises the agency’s findings on issues such as gender equality in employment, wealth inequality and labour shortages. These will have a significant bearing on recovery from the pandemic, resilience in the face of the war in Ukraine and a successful transition to a green and digital future.


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EU Care Atlas: a new interactive data map showing how care deficits affect the gender earnings gap in the EU

Browse through the EU Care Atlas, a new interactive data map to help uncover what the statistics are often hiding: how care deficits directly feed into the gender earnings gap.

While attention is often focused on the gender pay gap (13%), the EU Care Atlas brings to light the more worrisome and complex picture of women’s economic inequalities. The pay gap is just one of three main elements that explain the overall earnings gap, which is estimated at 36.7%. The EU Care Atlas illustrates the urgent need to look beyond the pay gap and understand the interplay between the overall earnings gap and care imbalances.


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Towards a new Minimum Wage Policy in Germany and Europe: WSI minimum wage report 2022

The past year has seen a much higher political profile for the issue of minimum wages, not only in Germany, which has seen fresh initiatives to tackle low pay, but also in those many other countries in Europe that have embarked on substantial and sustained increases in statutory minimum wages. One key benchmark in determining what should count as an adequate minimum wage is the threshold of 60 per cent of the median wage, a ratio that has also played a role in the European Commission's proposals for an EU-level policy on minimum wages. This year's WSI Minimum Wage Report highlights the feasibility of achieving minimum wages that meet this criterion, given the political will. And with an increase to 12 euro per hour planned for autumn 2022, Germany might now find itself promoted from laggard to minimum-wage trailblazer.


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