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The EU has placed competitiveness, industrial renewal, and strategic autonomy at the centre of its agenda. But will these ambitions support the green and social transition, or become a pretext for deregulation and a weakening of Social Europe? The General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Andrew Watt, explains what this changing political landscape could mean for workers and trade unions and social policy – and for the kind of economic model Europe is building.

After its victory, can the AfD form a government in the East German state? And if not, what coalition of rivals could possibly govern in its place?

The RN has risen thanks to its leaders’ ability to rally working-class voters while securing support from business elites. Can it maintain unity?

As we lay waste to nature, we are losing the ability to experience freedom.

The current tech landscape is neither our best nor only choice.

How will Hungary approach the civil-society-drafted proposal?

As tension with Beijing raises more political, social, environmental and security concerns, Greens can create an opening for bold and cohesive policy.

How can mobility put citizens’ wellbeing at the heart of planning?

Seemingly pragmatic responses to urgent public problems risk major societal and environmental consequences.

How does public space illustrate and reproduce traditional gender power relations?