Welfare and Social Issues

As Europe’s population ages, balancing social rights with a viable pension system is becoming increasingly challenging yet urgent.

As regional authorities push to enlarge El Prat, Catalonia’s climate goals and environment are once again pitted against corporate profiteering.

The fight over platform workers’ rights concerns us all, writes Ben Wray.

Determined to fight back against overtourism, locals around one of Italy’s most popular natural attractions are forging international alliances.

Can sharper ideological messaging around the housing crisis help green and progressive forces mobilise majorities? 

How two progressive thinkers imagine ways out of the multiple crises facing today’s societies.

Youth in French suburbs are fighting to wrestle the climate agenda back from the far right.

In a capitalist world that often encourages blame and abandonment, how can we stay with injury and adapt?

Amid pressure to phase out coal, workers, mining unions, and locals in Poland’s Silesia are demanding a socially and economically just transition.

What pushes electorates to vote far-right? Many answers have been put forward, but a unifying factor could be care.