News and Views

  • ‘We are ending the Green Deal!’: far-right MEPs celebrate as EU Parliament rejects latest sustainability simplification text

    The consensus text criticised for watering down corporate sustainability requirements had been approved by centre parties in committee last week, but MEPs narrowly rejected it in a plenary vote yesterday.

  • Connecting isolated enterprises to unlock development: the Rural Social Enterprise Gathering 2025

    The Rural Social Enterprise Gathering 2025 will take place in Malaysia at the end of October, bringing together hundreds of social entrepreneurs to focus on the distinct challenges faced by communities outside the world’s urban areas. It will be about ‘sharing like family’, predicts one of the key speakers.

  • From Scotland to Taiwan, and back again? How SEWF 2025 can be an ‘engine for change’ in delegates’ home countries

    Social Enterprise World Forum was founded in Scotland. Now, the country’s government is backing a delegation to head to Taiwan to promote its social enterprise ecosystem to the world.

the EU Parliament building in Brussels

The Editor's Post: A complicated simplification

It's time to face reality as EU corporate sustainbility laws are further undermined, why we're trying to avoid acronyms, and a few reasons to read our latest explainer. This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.