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The normalisation of war demands not the burial of international law, but its urgent reinvention — and Europe must lead the charge.

Workplace health and safety policies built around a male default leave millions of women exposed to risks that better regulation could prevent.

During the High-level Conference on Social Rights this month in Chișinău, Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, gave an exclusive interview to Social Europe.

A recent EU survey exposes the chasm between headline economic data and the financial reality confronting households across Europe.

Trump’s personality cult follows a well-worn historical playbook — but his pathological narcissism ensures he cannot deploy it effectively.

A remarkable consensus on social rights is emerging as Europe's answer to inequality, democratic backsliding and geopolitical upheaval.

As coalition formation grows ever more tortuous, the Netherlands must confront whether proportional representation itself is the problem.

Five years after the coup, foreign brands and the EU's trade preferences continue to generate hard currency for a military regime waging war on its own people.

Militarism and ecological collapse are not separate emergencies — they are the same emergency, feeding each other in a spiral humanity cannot afford to ignore.

The easing of Russian oil restrictions amid the Iran crisis reveals sanctions as tools of power, not justice.

The greatest democratic theorist of the postwar era leaves behind a world dismantling everything he defended.

The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests.

Progressive politics has rediscovered affordability, but an economic agenda that ignores the dignity and quality of work is only half a strategy.

Democratic backsliding and rising social insecurity have gone hand in hand.