Lisa Pelling explains how ‘freedom of choice’ has wrought a vicious circle of inequality and underperformance.
Access to justice in the ‘Fit for 55’ package
Implementing the ‘Fit for 55’ package depends on citizens and NGOs being able to hold governments to account.
Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas
Genuine recovery from the pandemic requires tackling the deep structural crises it has highighted.
The new French left—the sociology of socialism
The realignment on the French left highlights the basic requirement that the left unite the working and professional classes.
For a democratic, egalitarian and feminist constitution
Chile’s constitutional convention is an example of how citizens’ representatives can refound a contemporary democracy.
The recovery will be green and feminist or it won’t be
Chile’s new constitution could be the first to embody egalitarian and ecological principles.
Deinstitutionalisation, disability and delay
After a decade of inertia, the EU has made little progress on the deinstitutionalisation of disabled people.
Europe’s future hangs in the balance
Europe Day should be a day of celebration. Today it is an affirmation of resolve.
Return to positive interest rates requires a safety net
Peter Bofinger explains how inflation in the eurozone can be tempered without jeopardising recovery.
The long shadow of market fundamentalism
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
The coming world order
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the world order—and with it the energy, production, distribution and finance systems.
No time for silos amid global heating
Sweden needs a ‘joined-up’ approach to climate change or it will fall well short of its responsibilities.
Covid-19 and the ‘deserving’ vulnerable
In public vaccination programmes, all humans should be equal. But some have proved more equal than others.
Has the war in Ukraine made the EU a geopolitical actor?
Suddenly, Nicoletta Pirozzi writes, the EU’s ‘geopolitical’ claims have become essential, not aspirational.
‘South working’: the future of remote work
If remote working is no longer to be temporary, workers could revitalise previously ‘remote’ areas.