What’s the relationship between public childcare and pensions? Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noël look at the big picture, arguing that a just transition mentality and a life-course approach to welfare politics could facilitate a more effective social state for citizens, from childhood to retirement.

In the wake of the recent and rather fruitless Multiannual Financial Framework summit earlier this month, Lucas Schramm, EUI Ph.D. Researcher in Political and Social Sciences, analyses the difficult EU budget negotiations and argues that richer member states should be prepared to shoulder more of the costs in 2021-2027.

Now nearly 30 years on from the Dublin Convention, Historian and EUI Max Weber Fellow Gaia Lott highlights missed opportunities to integrate burden sharing into European asylum policy.

In a recent report, researchers from the BRaVE project examine the causes driving social polarisation in the global north. Their work aims to provide guidance on creating the political, social and economic conditions that foster community resilience to the cleavages of our day.

Water scarcity is often indicated as yet another point of conflict in the Middle East. However, water sector specialist and former STG Policy Leader Fellow Edoardo Borgomeo sees reasons for optimism in the vast range of strategies available for managing diminishing water resources.

Political scientist Johannes Karremans urges for greater public debate on the political dimensions of financial markets, where the creation (or destruction) of virtual wealth has very real consequences for the redistribution of tangible wealth.

With COP25 just around the corner, Dr Isabella Alloisio, Research Associate at the Florence School of Regulation-Climate, evaluates the US’ waning commitment to combat climate change.

Historian Tom Junes highlights the often eclipsed generational dimension of the protests that brought sweeping transformation to Eastern Europe in the late 1980s.

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East is a serious security problem for the entire world. In this article, EUI Ph.D. candidate in Political and Social Sciences Adérito Vicente lays out the likely scenarios regarding the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the region.

Legal scholar Laura M. Henderson argues that a postmodern ethics of just judgment is necessary for dealing with contemporary legal transnational challenges, such as climate change and migration. Such a mode of just judgment calls on our legal interpreter to constantly interrogate the boundaries of the law and to make decisions that preserve space for future renegotiations of those boundaries.