Policy

Economic growth was long seen as the surest route to poverty eradication. That wisdom has since been dispelled. In its place, an emphasis on securing society-wide equality and wellbeing has emerged, but policymakers have yet to catch up.

In this panel interview, three scholars debate how the pandemic has shifted the ground for the green transition.

The University of Liège researcher explains how our changing environment is making people move, calling for evidence-based policy decisions.

Unless pursued with extreme care, natural climate solutions risk becoming just another offsetting tool – alibis for inaction and delay.

A coherent blueprint with political backing will be essential if the EU is to forge an effective energy security policy.

Bruno Latour emphasises the need for a politics of the living moving from this European-invented space to the tangible space that he calls “dwelling place”.

As a way of doing politics, populism is here to stay. Its opponents must offer real alternatives and keep political debate grounded upon the choices at hand.

How can the EU support the establishment of commons, which could in turn sustain the European project?

TTIP has become notorious over recent years. From Brussels to Berlin, Warsaw to Barcelona, more people know what these four letters stand for today more than ever before.

The European Citizens’ Initiative opened a much needed channel for citizens to reach the European Institutions directly, and brought with it immense potential to reinforce the EU’s democratic legitimacy.