By ALDA When you were a child, have you ever been told to act like a girl (or a boy)? In the European Union, women earn on average 16% less than men. For the same job. Why? Working women in the EU spend on average 26 hours/week on unpaid care and housework. Working men… 9 […]

By the European Commission On Europe Day, 9 May 2018, the European Commission launched an online public consultation addressed to all Europeans, asking them what direction they want the European Union to take in the future. This unique consultation, part of the broader Future of Europe debate launched with the Commission’s White Paper on 1 […]

By European Minimum Income Network (EMIN) 2 Buses, 32 Countries, 64 days, over 120 events and over a thousand volunteers for Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes.   On 24 April the EMIN partners, together with experts by experience, Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, Mairead McGuinness, (Vice President European Parliament), more than 20 civil society organisations, members of the […]

By Samuel Moyn Published April 23, 2018 in the New York Times The human rights movement, like the world it monitors, is in crisis: After decades of gains, nearly every country seems to be backsliding. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and other populist leaders routinely express contempt for human rights and […]