Almut Rochowanski is an activist who has been supporting civil society in the former Soviet Union for 20 years, focusing on peace work and women’s rights. The time for hand-wringing and empty ...

Dr Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff is a diplomat who has been working in the field of EU external relations since 1992. He has served as the European Union’s official representative in various locations, ...

Ukraine and Moldova Programme Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. He manages projects related to Ukraine’s legal alignment with the EU, including sector-specific reforms, and recently co ...

Contrary to the European trend, Germany wants to extend daily working hours. Here’s why the current debate is a step backwards.

Susan Javad is responsible for the topics of labour, qualification and co-determination in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Political Advice and Impulses Department. She previously worked for the ...

Populists rarely win because they make better arguments. They often ride on the way their opponents react. Attacking populists only makes them stronger, not because of what is said, but because of the ...

The leaders of China and the EU had so much going for them when they met to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. After all, the second and third largest economies in the world ...

Fifteen years ago, Richard Wilkinson and I drew attention to the profound damage caused to population health, people’s life chances and social cohesion by socioeconomic inequality. We spent the next ...

As the Russian autocracy gradually became more and more repressive over the course of the 2010s, the Russian-language internet, or Runet, initially remained a comparatively free space — in stark ...

Ever since the AI hype began with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the EU has moved from wanting to set global regulatory standards with its AI Act to being worried about falling behind the US ...

America’s critics have always depicted it as a selfish country that throws its weight around with little regard for others’ well-being. But President Donald Trump’s trade policies have been so ...

Explaining Europe’s self-destructive behaviour is challenging, and still, one thing is certain — destruction unfolds gradually and often in disguise Europe faces an explosive cocktail of crises, to ...