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    Can technology and innovation help revitalise inner cities?

    By the year 2050, the United Nations predicts 80% of Europeans will live in cities or towns. Over time, wealth, businesses,…
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    Are rent controls the answer to affordable housing?

    Is Europe facing a housing crisis? For many Europeans, rents or mortgages have become their highest expenditure, and the situation seems to…
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    Who should pay for your healthcare if you get sick?

    Europe is going grey. Already, the number of Europeans aged sixty-five or older is greater than the number aged eighteen or…
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    Do refugees put a significant burden on social welfare systems?

    Sweden has one of the most generous welfare systems in the world. It has also, per capita, received more asylum seekers than…
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    Are human rights under threat in your country?

    In 2018, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70. On 10 December 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the historic…
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    Should everyone have a four-day work week?

    Are we all working too hard? During the 19th century, labour leaders campaigned for the “eight-hour day”. Until that point, it…
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    Is tourism killing cities?

    Is Europe turning into the world’s theme park? The UN World Tourism Organization estimates there were 1.3 billion international tourists in…
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    Is investing in education the best way to reduce child poverty?

    One in four children in Europe are at risk of poverty. According to Eurostat, that means around 25 million children (representing…
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    Is government intervention the best way to cut inequality?

    Greed is good. So said Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone’s 1987 satirical film Wall Street. The sentiment has been echoed more recently by British…
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