The share of renewables in Europe’s energy production is growing slowly but surely. Yet as Europe races to build its green energy economy, the workers doing the building are too often facing weaker unions, unsafe conditions, and employers who resist collective bargaining. Without them on board, the transition can’t achieve the social consent it depends on for its success. What would it take to make green jobs good jobs?
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Read moreAs the far right turns economic insecurity into a politics of scarcity and division, the billionaire could spur a different political “we”.
Read moreWith the far right on the rise on both sides of the Channel, closer EU-UK collaboration remains an open question.
Read moreWhile some of the walls that separated us have crumbled, new divides are forming in front of our very eyes.
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Read moreMorocco once again showed why relying on autocrats to control the EU’s external borders is untenable.
Read moreDespite supply chain due diligence requirements, Indian car parts with a dirty footprint still end up in Europe’s cars.
Read more“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest.”
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