Analysis

As long as electricity remains organised around private profit rather than public need, expanding renewables alone will not deliver affordable energy in Europe Each new energy shock in Europe is treated as an exception, a crisis that arrives from the outside through war and supply disruption. And each time the reaction follows the same, predictable pattern: energy prices surge, governments come up with temporary relief measures to soften the blow and the system that produced the crisis in the first place remains untouched....
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As energy costs surge and decarbonisation pressures mount, Europe’s steel crisis exposes the limits of profit-driven industry — and the case for public ownership Europe’s steel sector is in crisis. The obvious culprit is the continent’s high energy prices, now further escalating in the wake of the Iran war. But the deeper problem lies elsewhere: the industry risks returning increasingly fewer profits to company bosses and shareholders. Amidst their troubles, there’s an opportunity for the Left to make a strong case for public...
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On 24 March, Denmark goes to the polls in an early election that could reshape the Nordic country’s political landscape Earlier this year, Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was riding a modest “Greenland bounce” due to the tense stand-off with Donald Trump over Greenland. While this may have prompted her to call a snap election to save her flagging mandate, it is domestic politics that have defined the campaign, and with more than a dozen parties in the mix, the outcome is far from clear. The results may also mark an end of...
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As rents soar across Europe, the European Parliament reinforces market logic instead of confronting the structural roots of the housing crisis Despite lacking direct legislative competence in housing, European policy has for decades exerted a profound, often detrimental, influence on national housing markets. As the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung study The Impact of EU Policies on Housing shows, EU economic governance, state aid rules, and internal market regulations have played a decisive role in shaping housing systems...
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