“The chance to reconcile future abundance with planetary boundaries is perhaps the best news of the century.”

“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest, but the women’s movement without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet.”

Andrew Watt explains what the changing political landscape could mean for workers and trade unions – and for the kind of economic model Europe is building.

The RN has risen thanks to its leaders’ ability to rally working-class voters while securing support from business elites. Can it maintain unity?

As we lay waste to nature, we are losing the ability to experience freedom.

The current tech landscape is neither our best nor only choice

As tension with Beijing raises more political, social, environmental and security concerns, Greens can create an opening for bold and cohesive policy.

How can mobility put citizens’ wellbeing at the heart of planning?

Seemingly pragmatic responses to urgent public problems risk major societal and environmental consequences.

How does public space illustrate and reproduce traditional gender power relations?

Simon Guyomard and Édouard Jourdain ask what it means to inhabit the world without dominating it.

Can the EU position itself in a completely new economic geography?

Ofer Waldman searches for traces in memories, recollections, and conversations with October 7th victims.

The next print edition of the Green European Journal will address China’s rise and its implications for Europe. We are open to essays, photo essays, interviews, graphic journalism, and more. Send…

To win the fight against the oil empire, Europe must treat energy sovereignty and climate justice as two fronts of the same battle.

Where identifiable actors are behind environmental damage, voters have tended to use the ballot box to express their frustration.

How do extreme far-right ideas travel from the fringes to the fore of political discourse?

Some scientists have now started using the term “Pyrocene” rather than Anthropocene to describe our geological epoch.

Working towards solidarity and care requires us to challenge the foundational assumptions of the economy that surrounds us.

Human activity already modifies the atmosphere. But is solar geoengineering going a step too far?

An overreliance on private capital risks centering private interests over public need.

With anti-establishment sentiment on the rise, evidence of Russian interference might not be enough to rebuild trust with citizens.

Between the ambitions of global superpowers and AI giants, Europe has the opportunity to look for something better.

Despite its traumatic nuclear history, Belarus is pursuing a new era of atomic expansion.

Global developments shine a spotlight on Europe’s entrenched relationship with agricultural inputs.

As Europe rethinks its security, can it defend itself without compromising the values it seeks to protect?

An accidental relationship between a city and a reclaimed wetland has sparked a wider effort to rethink urban planning and embed nature into Bucharest’s future.

An investigation into Europe's commercial ties with factories operating in the occupied West Bank and their parent companies.

As football expands across the globe, the sport is being reshaped by a powerful mix of geopolitical ambition, commercialisation, and neoliberal economics.

Can looking to LGBTQIA+ people, who have always had to forge their own path, help rethink our relationship with family, parenthood, and care?

For Jörg Tremmel and Lena Winzer, committing to the future can expand democratic possibilities.

Adjusting to the new demographic reality requires that we pivot away from productivity and growth, and towards care for one another and for the planet.

For Wangui Kimari, Africa’s youth are neither a “bulge” nor a “dividend”, but a political subject in their own right.

Flawed narratives and a crisis of trust have blocked productive conversation around migration.

In 2025, Nepal’s attempt to ban social media triggered a wave of digitally organised youth protests that rapidly spiralled into a nationwide revolution.

With elderly people now outnumbering under-18s in the EU, older generations are concentrating electoral power and public resources, raising fears of an unavoidable generational clash.

Adjusting to the new demographic reality requires that we pivot away from productivity and growth, and towards care for one another and for the planet.

Although they are a third of the global population and impacted equally or increasingly by crises, children remain nearly invisible in democratic policymaking.

Since 2019, civil society organisations have served as a democratic opposition to Greece’s illiberal turn. But how long can they withstand systemic repression?

Israel’s war has laid bare the limitations of international law, but efforts to document its crimes keep alive the possibility of justice

The 7 May elections reveal growing support for independence in the UK’s smaller members.

As Europe continues to age, could an overlooked demographic reshape how climate action is understood and mobilised?

The attempt to restart democracy in Hungary stands a better chance of success than at any time since 1989. Will Péter Magyar take the country in the right direction?

Demographic decline is exposing a fundamental blind spot in modern economics: its inability to recognise the value of care. Demand for care work is rising yet economics has no real theory of how care…

As countries weigh whether to ban minors from social media, the question remains: how do we properly protect children, and is a ban truly the most effective answer?

Evidence that Parkinson’s may be linked to pesticides has been accumulating for decades, yet EU authorisation bodies have failed to take meaningful action.

Could the cost-of-living crisis give progressives a window? Public service funding and tax-the-rich sentiments top polls across Europe.

Rosatom, the world’s most active exporter of nuclear technology, establishes an integrated model of political and societal influence.