A lack of affordable housing in urban centres is driving political instability across Central and Eastern Europe.

‘Social media’ have become rapidly integrated into almost all aspects of human life and social organisation, from product marketing and political communication to health, fitness and dating. Despite ...

Figures 2 and 3 explain why the Human Development Index, which reflects health and education alongside income, registers a much smaller gap between the two groups than the comparison of per capita ...

The EU's flagship Just Transition Fund, designed to mitigate social inequalities, faces significant challenges in achieving its ambitious goals.

Thomas Piketty tells Robin Wilson how wealth and power can be transferred from capital to workers and citizens.

So far, robotics has had very little impact on care, with few successes to support its claims. In Japan, where the most significant investments have been made, the results have been less than ...

A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.

At the end of the Cold War, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called ‘ The end of history? ’. Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the last obstacle separating ...

The 2024 Stability and Growth Pact reforms entrench austerity and stifle investment—challenging the new EU Commission to reverse Europe’s economic decline. Fiscal policies in Eurozone countries have ...

Amidst geopolitical shifts, the notion that Europe must choose between security and social support is not only politically dangerous but also economically unsound.

Branko Milanovic charts the fall and fall of the organisation tasked with preserving world peace. The first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, at the UN General Assembly, her husband, Volodymyr ...

The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies amid a changing political landscape. From Greta Thunberg’s one-woman protests in 2018, to global demonstrations by ...