European clothing brands can still sell garments whose cotton may be linked to exploited farmers and child labour in Pakistan ...

Companies in the clothing sector are stepping up their sustainability commitments, but a significant proportion of these ...

In the Netherlands, a “kraamzorg” is a professional who helps mothers in the days and weeks following childbirth. How are ...

In May, Italy's Lega (far-right) led by Matteo Salvini presented a bill to introduce compulsory military or civilian service for all 18-26 year olds, lasting six months. Military service was abolished ...

A group of European citizens is proposing the ‘Society of Agreement’, a new social contract combining social justice, ...

Hanna Perekhoda is a historian and researcher at the University of Lausanne – Institute of Political Studies and Centre for International History and Political Studies of Globalisation, specialising ...

Leaders of the NATO member countries met in Ankara (Turkey) on 7 and 8 July, for a summit—as has become something of a ...

Along Kosovo's R107 highway, in a landscape of car washes and marble shops that smell of vinegar, the future is in a cooperative that packages ajvar, a roasted red pepper pâté. This cannery is located ...

Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde warns against a comforting illusion: losing elections does not stop the far right from ...

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian. He is co- editor of Spilne/Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and an activist of the Sotsialnyi Rukh (“Social Movement”, SR), a left-wing political movement ...

The Flamingo Revolution is shaking up Albania. Since 23 May, the young and decentralised movement has brought thousands of ...

Ruslan Surugiu has better options: given his experience, he could earn significantly more in Germany, where he lived and worked for a long time, and be with his family there. However, he says that ...