Who’s staying at home with the kids?
Too many fathers delegating childcare to their partner; mothers staying too long outside the workforce; an uneven range of rights and guarantees: how and why parental leave is changing in Europe.
Year: 2018
Air pollution kills more than 500,000 Europeans each year
Despite the efforts of European countries, atmospheric pollution (fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone in particular) continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Manifesto for a European Republic
For the first time in European history, citizens all over the continent will gather at a single moment in time – 10th of November at 4 p.m. – to spark a broad debate about European democracy and what it means to be European citizens.
Europe is getting more wealthy – and more unequal
Forecasts for 2023, show that across the EU, the median wealth per adult is on the rise. However, it is still unclear if the distribution of wealth will become more balanced in the future. Germany tops the ranking of EU countries with the highest number of millionaires holding more than $ 50 mln of wealth.
The Caryatid
Erdoğan’s extended clampdown
Turkey plans to open what it dubs the world’s largest airport, a massive infrastructure project in keeping with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's outsized influence on national politics. But will he be able to retain his tight grip given the country’s economic situation?
The end of the Swiss tax haven?
European banking activity is stalling in Switzerland, such that the country appears to be a less and less profitable financial centre.
Easy life
Five minutes to midnight
Traditional political parties are out of ideas, while the radical right have free reign. The time has come for resistance and intellectual rearmament, argues Bernard Guetta.
Manifesto for a European Patriotism
With nationalism and fear threatening the European project more than ever, the EuropaNow! association aims to defend the fundamental values of our continent, embodied in the United States of Europe it seeks to establish.
A European picnic for a democratic uprising
Twenty-nine years ago civil society representatives from Western and Eastern Europe organised a "Pan-European picnic" in Sopron, at the Austria-Hungary border, helping to bring an end to Cold War division. With nationalism now threatening the European project, we're going to repeat the event during Internazionale's festival in Ferrara on October 6th.