Social Europe

The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder

Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.

Europe facing three threats to its future

William Desmonts

The EU has to navigate disturbing internal dynamics, external challenges and a weak economic outlook.

Policing must be based on human rights

David Martín Abánades

Police services exist to uphold the rule of law. They can only do so if their policing model is based on protection of human rights.

Ukraine’s recovery: a huge challenge ahead

Sascha Ostanina

Ukraine’s post-war recovery will require concerted, long-term EU commitment, leveraging substantial private investment.

From inflation shock to a sharp distributional conflict

Wages have fallen behind inflation, while profit-taking has not only fuelled price rises but reduced the labour share.

Get ready for the X-day week!

The clunky debate over four versus five days should be replaced by a focus on flexibility and individal autonomy.

Refugees: ‘how could we possibly get here?’

The European Union is crossing human-rights red lines with its Common European Asylum System.

How populists stay popular, from Ankara to Budapest

Stephen Pogány

Once installed in power, authoritarian leaders such as Erdoğan and Orbán are very hard to dislodge.

Three choices for a more strategic Europe

Linda Kalcher and Neil Makaroff

The EU aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. It must make strategic choices to realise 90 per cent by 2040.

The summer issue of the Progressive Post magazine by FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to the importance of biodiversity, not only as a good in itself but also for the very existence of humankind. We need a paradigm change in the mostly utilitarian relation humans have with nature.

In this issue, we also look at the hazards of unregulated artificial intelligence, explore the shortcomings of the EU's approach to migration and asylum management, and analyse the social downside of the EU's current ethnically-focused Roma policy.

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2022 / 2023

With real wages falling by 4 per cent in 2022, workers in the European Union suffered an unprecedented loss in purchasing power. The reason for this was the rapid increase in consumer prices, behind which nominal wage growth fell significantly. Meanwhile, inflation is no longer driven by energy import prices, but by domestic factors. The increased profit margins of companies are a major reason for persistent inflation. In this difficult environment, trade unions are faced with the challenge of securing real wages—and companies have the responsibility of making their contribution to returning to the path of political stability by reducing excess profits.

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The four transitions and the missing one

Europe is at a crossroads, painfully navigating four transitions (green, digital, economic and geopolitical) at once but missing the transformative and ambitious social transition it needs. In other words, if the EU is to withstand the storm, we do not have the luxury of abstaining from reflecting on its social foundations, of which intermittent democratic discontent is only one expression. It is against this background that the ETUI/ETUC publishes its annual flagship publication Benchmarking Working Europe 2023, with the support of more than 70 graphs and a special contribution from two guest editors, Professors Kalypso Nikolaidïs and Albena Azmanova.

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Eurofound Talks: housing

In this episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound’s senior research manager, Hans Dubois, about the issues that feed into housing insecurity in Europe and the actions that need to be taken to address them. Together, they analyse findings from Eurofound’s recent Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe report, which presents data from Eurofound’s Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions and input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents on various indicators of housing security and living conditions.

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