Sharing some recent updates and what I’ve published so far in 2026.

A potential mass lawsuit in the Netherlands is seeking back pay for temporary workers who were allegedly underpaid in breach of EU legislation. More than a million people could be eligible, and many o...

In an exclusive interview with EUobserver, Marta Lorenzo, the director of the UNRWA office in Brussels, summarises the situation in Gaza as “a combination of hope and despair”.

EU taxpayers are funding a multi-year campaign blitz which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy while featuring bizarre and misleading claims. Since 2017, the Euro...

According to Oxford professor of energy Jan Rosenow, rapid electrification of Europe's industry, not rolling back the EU's Green Deal, will save European industry.

Organized labor has been more effective at defending the welfare state in Belgium than in most European countries. After recent actions resisting austerity plans, a three-day strike this week seeks to...

The proposed rollback of the EU’s corporate accountability rules will significantly weaken their ability to address labour violations within the EU, experts and labour union representatives told EUobs...

The proposed rollback of the EU’s corporate accountability rules will significantly weaken their ability to address labour violations within the EU, experts and labour union representatives told EUobserver.

Workers across Europe are standing up for Gaza. Nevertheless, there's much more to be done.

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

Israel could still face an avalanche of EU sanctions despite its veto-holding allies in the Council, former diplomats have said.

A project by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay, focused on today’s intersecting crises and the political economy of climate change.

On the EU-US trade deal and how it could hurt Europe's workers.

On the EU-US trade deal and how it could hurt Europe's workers.

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

Journalism is facing a structural crisis with far-reaching effects on those working in the industry. In this climate, how are freelance reporters faring in France, Italy, and Spain? The short answer: not well.

The United States and the European Union are pleased to announce that they have agreed on a Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade ('Framework Agreement').

EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

"We're not exactly celebrating this, it's not a case that this is a good thing but it's probably the least bad option based on what we were facing a couple of days ago,” said Irish foreign minister Ne...

Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’