Tue 09/02/2016 - 12:00 By Jean Pisani-Ferry. If one considers some of today’s main challenges – including climate change, pensions, public debt, and the labor market – an obvious conclusion emerges: It is relatively much worse to be young today than it was a quarter-century ago. Yet in most countries, the generational dimension is remarkably absent from the political debate. Fifty years ago, people spoke often, and loudly, of a “generation gap.” Today, that gap has become invisible. This is bad for the young, for democracy, and for social justice.

Wed 28/03/2018 - 12:00 The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, recorded an 83% drop in refugees and migrants fleeing north across the Mediterranean to Europe over the past two years, down to 172,300 last year from a staggering 1,000,573 in 2015.
But these figures belie the reality on the ground. What’s more, they belie the fears the spring thaw is rousing in Brussels of a new migrant crisis.