Corporate responsibility, human rights and the environment
Throughout the global economy, there are hundreds of examples of businesses that disregard human rights, severely damage the environment, evict indigenous peoples from their ancestral
Europe’s complicity in the catastrophe in Yemen
The war in Yemen has led to the worst humanitarian catastrophe today. Twenty-four million people, 80 percent of the population, need some sort of humanitarian
The Energy Charter Treaty: an obstacle to the energy transition
Little is said about the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). And despite the opacity that surrounds it, it is one of the international agreements that affects
The European Health Union, the answer to future health crises
The major challenges we face today know no boundaries. We have been aware for some time that Europe’s response to climate change or to the
Recovery first, then transformation: a new strategy for European industry
What should tomorrow’s European industry look like? We know the underlying rhetoric: we need to prioritize ecological and digital transitions, and at the same time
A budget to strengthen Europe
After long and difficult negotiations, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached a budget agreement that we might describe as reasonably
The new CAP, a looming missed opportunity
Last Friday, the European Parliament adopted its position on the reform of the CAP Common Agricultural Policy post-2022, which will now be negotiated with the
More European Union to face impending difficulties
While still far from displaying the solemnity and substance that the State of the Union Address has in the United States, the first address on
European sovereignty
Many international relations analysts are talking these days about COVID-19 as the “great accelerator” of global trends, that is the underlying trends that were already
Europe and Reglobalization
These days we often hear about theories that warn of a “paradigm shift” due to the Covid-19 shock and of transcendental transformations compared to the
Global Crises and the EU’s shortcomings
The European Union’s system of governance is not ready to deal efficiently with wide-ranging crises. We saw that with the economic and financial crisis that
