Dominic Afscharian, author at Social Europe

The Lethal Consensus: How Liberals Lost the War of Ideas

Dominic Afscharian

Bold visions defeat timid reforms—yet liberals insist on bringing policy briefs to an ideological gunfight.

The vanishing act of Social Europe: Will it rise again?

Dominic Afscharian

Grand promises of a “strong social Europe” have given way to a sidelined agenda.

A European basic income?

Dominic Afscharian, Viktoriia Muliavka, Marius Ostrowski and Lukáš Siegel

An EU-wide scheme could address progressives’ concerns.

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