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After Europe’s summer heatwaves, climate salience is at its highest in years, yet it’s clear the past frameworks used to mobilise majorities are crumbling amid an ongoing cost of living crisis and energy insecurity. To penetrate politically, climate communications must fit within the material realities of voters’ lives. In other words, the key to mobilising climate action is to demonstrate that the green transition can make European countries more secure and people’s lives cheaper.

The recent push for tech sovereignty can only succeed if it starts with democratic choice and a shared vision for social and technological progress.

As the far right turns economic insecurity into a politics of scarcity and division, the billionaire could spur a different political “we”.

With the far right on the rise on both sides of the Channel, closer EU-UK collaboration remains an open question.

While some of the walls that separated us have crumbled, new divides are forming in front of our very eyes.

“The chance to reconcile future abundance with planetary boundaries is perhaps the best news of the century.”

Morocco once again showed why relying on autocrats to control the EU’s external borders is untenable.

Despite supply chain due diligence requirements, Indian car parts with a dirty footprint still end up in Europe’s cars.

“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest.”

What will the changing political landscape mean for workers and trade unions – and for the kind of economic model Europe is building.