Welfare and Social Issues

Designed to increase workers’ insecurity and enrich private funds, France’s disputed pension reform is part of a global trend towards financialisation. To push back, states need to rethink their role in the digital era.

Our current time management model no longer works. How do we fix it?

Public confidence in the UK is trending down. Addressing economic insecurity could be an antidote.

A look at the EU’s key mechanism for cushioning workers against adverse impacts of climate policies.

Austrian Greens are reforming the country’s welfare system to meet the needs of a broader demographic.

With housing precarity rising in the city, Lyon Metropole is taking emergency steps to provide shelter to homeless and poorly housed people.

In Scotland, housing movements’ “radical” ideas became policies after the entry of the Greens into government.

Zagreb’s green-left municipal government is restoring the city’s capacity to deliver quality public services amid surging energy prices.

The spike in energy prices in Belgium shows that social justice and environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin.

Anna Toniolo looks at the political consequences of the precarity and unaffordable expenses faced by young people in Italy.