US historian Gary Gerstle explains how globalization helped entrench neoliberalism while also bringing about its demise Some moments in US history need decades to be fully grasped—they aren’t bound by the two-, four-, and six-year election cycles. Such periods, called “political orders” by US historian and Cambridge professor of American history Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, are a new way of rethinking political time. The New Deal and the neoliberalism that followed were...

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Today, the first baseline reports on the implementation of the Code of Practice are available online, as the first version of the Transparency Centre of the Code of Practice on Disinformation goes live. 30 Signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation, including all major online platform signatories (Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, Twitter), have submitted their first baseline reports on the implementation of the commitments they took under the Code of Practice on Disinformation. Signatories had six months after signing the...

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Today, the Commission has proposed detailed rules to define what constitutes renewable hydrogen in the EU, with the adoption of two Delegated Acts required under the Renewable Energy Directive. These Acts are part of a broad EU regulatory framework for hydrogen which includes energy infrastructure investments and state aid rules, and legislative targets for renewable hydrogen for the industry and transport sectors. They will ensure that all renewable fuels of non-biological origin (also known as RFNBOs) are produced from...

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Novel survey shows how concerned people are about climate change, how they view mitigation polices, and what drives support for climate action People across the world worry about climate change, but that concern alone doesn’t translate into support for climate mitigation policies. That’s our finding based on a recent survey designed to better illustrate how people perceive the risks from climate change and their support for government climate actions. Responses also show that those who were more concerned about climate change tend...

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