The Age of Security Populists
In a context where acts of terrorism and violence provide justification for increasingly intrusive interference with the rights of citizens, what international frameworks exist to limit government sur...
20 Maj 201915min
Three Futures for Trade Unions in 2049
Climate change and digitalisation will shape the 21st century, but society’s ability to determine the future should not be downplayed. Christophe Degryse, head of the Foresight Unit at the European Tr...
6 Maj 201911min
Delivering Green Mobility in 2049
The European transport sector needs a transformation if it is to support a green Europe in 2049. Solutions to transport’s most pressing environmental problems are emerging, but will bring their own ch...
29 Apr 201915min
The Nature of Green Populism?
The rise of populism across Europe and beyond has been widely acknowledged, achieving significant electoral success in recent years, in Germany, France and the UK to name but a few. Amanda Machin and ...
24 Apr 201913min
Plastic Promises: Industry Seeking to Avoid Binding Regulations
We are drowning in plastic. It is hard to exaggerate the scale and urgency of the challenge facing the world, to substantially reduce our plastics use, and to ensure we reuse and recycle as much and a...
4 Apr 201914min
EU Ban on Neonics: Too Little, Too Late
Neonicotinoids are the most popular – and the most poisonous – insecticides in the world. The large-scale collateral damage caused by neonicotinoids, or ‘neonics’ in short, on our ecosystem has been s...
27 Mars 201919min
The IPCC Report and its Political Implications
The recent IPCC report made international headlines for underlining that countries have as little as 12 years to take steps to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Bert Metz, fellow at the Europ...
21 Mars 201917min
A Food Policy for Europe
Instead of policy which pulls in different directions, Europe needs an integrated food policy that supports more local attempts at a sustainable and productive food system. Co-chair of the Internation...
14 Mars 201920min
