Welfare and Social Issues

The Grand Paris Express promises better connectivity for the French capital. However, for Roma squatters and slum residents, it has meant evictions.

Matteo Mandelli, Taube Van Melkebeke, and Philippe Pochet build alliances towards climate-adapted welfare states.

Inspiration for decarbonising industry and creating green jobs is within the hands of those already facing precarity.

Protecting creative workers can cement an inclusive European identity and equip us with the imagination needed to fight climate change.

As national politics turns right, a fresh push for drugs decriminalisation and legal regulation is coming from the cities.

Ireland will vote on two changes to its Constitution. But the nature of the proposed changes poses major challenges to constructive public debate.

Cooperatives and social enterprises offer an alternative to capitalist profit-seeking in times of ecosocial crisis. Can they escape the growth model?

The instrumentalisation of women’s rights in Poland is nothing new. Will the new prime minister Donald Tusk deliver the change he promised?

The profit-maximisation-centered market economy does not work for all. A well-being economy could.

Anna Coote and Sebastian Mang on the building blocks of truly sustainable prosperity.