A single member state can block EU foreign policy decisions. A targeted reform could allow willing countries to act together despite vetoes. A new analysis explores how this could work without changing the EU treaties.

A handful of corporations dominate our food system, setting prices, profiting from crises, and driving relentless pressure on the environment, farmers, and consumers alike. The Agribusiness Atlas 2026 traces how this concentration of power took hold, and charts the political pathways toward a fairer food system built around the common good.

In this conversation with Barbara Mittelhammer, Sussan Tahmasebi traces the Middle East crisis to its structural roots. She critiques the EU’s inconsistencies on human rights and calls on Europe to rethink its relationship with the region and its people.

Gender-based violence is rooted in longstanding inequalities, intensified by conflict, displacement, and poverty. As global humanitarian funding declines, refugee and displaced women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ communities are losing access to critical services.

War doesn't just destroy infrastructures; it dismantles the social and economic foundations that hold societies together. The US-Israeli war with Iran has exposed how Europe's response remains dangerously blind to the human dimension of conflict. 

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the geopolitical landscape of climate action has fundamentally shifted. This policy paper examines how the EU and China interact across the Global South in support of net-zero development.

By 2025, more than 12 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced globally – and plastic pollution is not gender neutral. Our publication Combatting Global Plastic Pollution presents feminist perspectives for a gender-just approach to the plastic crisis. 

Changing the surface albedo is a proposed solar geoengineering method that aims to reflect more sunlight back into space by increasing the Earth’s albedo—the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface.

Stratospheric aerosol injection is a proposed solar geoengineering method in which large quantities of tiny reflective particles are released into the stratosphere to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight back into space.

Enhanced photosynthesis techniques are theoretical geoengineering technologies based on the idea that plants and algae can be genetically modified to absorb and metabolize and therefore store more carbon dioxide.