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

Paul Ribbeck has worked in political communication for ten years and is the SPD Berlin's internet officer. Reinhard Krumm, from the US, on Trump’s Russia ultimatum, his supposed closeness to Putin, ...

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 ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

Evgeny Antonov is a journalist and analyst based in Riga. He focuses on issues facing the Baltic States, Europe's strategic security challenges, the war in Ukraine, and the situation in Russia. He was ...

Sven Biscop teaches at the University of Ghent and heads the Europe in the World programme at Egmont — Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He is the author of This Is Not a New ...

Read this article in German. In 1990, Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen stated that ‘more than 100 million women are missing.’ What exactly did he mean by ‘missing’ here? Girls become ‘missing ...

Child labour, land grabbing, pollution — the EU’s supply chain law is intended to oblige companies to protect people and the environment. But despite years of democratic negotiations at European level ...

With climate change, geopolitical interests now compete in the Arctic for raw materials, trade routes and military bases ...

Those navigating between different realities and discourses amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza are frequently left speechless. In Germany, politics and the media ...

The United Nations representatives who took the microphone in Baghdad in early June 2023 to talk about Iraq’s current drought had little reason to be optimistic. While Germans and Central Europeans ...

As polarisation deepens, the rise of populism seems unstoppable. But focusing on shared values and local solidarity may just save democracy ...