Europe's twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.

Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.

The EU's industrial ambitions hinge on transforming extractive relationships into sustainable partnerships with resource-rich ...

The EU has launched a broad range of initiatives to respond to the energy and climate crisis — from the European Green Deal ...

Europe is on a self-destructive course with no plausible remedies for mounting problems. The result is widespread uncertainty, helplessness and fear.

Germany’s wage commission sets a new course, linking pay floor to EU benchmark after years of modest rises. With its latest ...

Henning Meyer is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe, Honorary Professor of Public Policy and Business at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and Research Associate at the Centre for ...

The end of neoliberalism and the rebirth of history For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries promised neoliberal policies would lead to faster growth and the benefits would trickle down so that ...

Environmental policy: avoiding a social backlash The Netherlands has become the latest country to face a public backlash to environmental policy.

Jürgen Habermas I am invited to talk about New Perspectives on Europe, but new ones fail me, and the Trumpian decay afflicting even the core of Europe makes me seriously question my old perspectives.

Why We Need To Rewrite The Maastricht Rules The 1992 Treaty of Maastricht that lay the basis for the euro committed signing governments to several economic targets. Subsequent treaties and protocols ...

G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.