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Is the EU’s new legislation a coup de grâce or a promise of transition for sensitive sectors in fragile countries, such as the steel industry in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Elvis Barukcic/AFP

Is Europe’s new carbon border tax fair for everyone?

Already lacking the means to decarbonise their industry or turn to greener alternatives, poor countries could also be deprived of revenues from exports to Europe.
October 16, 2014: Russian President seen through the soldiers during the military parade March of the victorious in Belgrade. Dimitrije Ostojic / Shutterstock

The Kremlin and elites in times of war

Are Russian elites playing a bigger role in the war than we give them credit for?
Worker unrest has been surging around the world. voy ager

Global economy 2023: what happens next with industrial action

With real wages in many countries having been stagnant for years, the inflation surge has brought unions back to life.
Toxoplasma gondii cyst hosted in a mouse’s brain. Jitender P. Dubey / PLOS Biology

Toxoplasma: the parasite that takes over our brains

Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.
National identity: despite Moscow’s best efforts, Ukrainians are increasingly looking to the west for their future. Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – our survey shows support for Nato is at an all-time high

Moscow’s fears that Ukraine was turning towards the west prompted the invasion. This has backfired dramatically.
In July 2022, passers-by watch the progress of a fire near Gignac (Hérault). Sylvain Thomas/AFP

Europe’s ‘pyroregions’: summer 2022 saw 20-year freak fires in regions that are historically immune, close to normal in fire prone areas

The forest fires that struck the Continent in the summer of 2022 were devastating, yet historical data shows that they were not ‘unprecedented’, contrary to media accounts.

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