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Éloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Alessandro Galli, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori and Raluca Munteanu


Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques, Sciences Po, a professor at the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po and Ponts ParisTech and a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is editor of The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy (Palgrave). Fabio Battaglia is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching the politics of wellbeing in Scotland and Italy. Alessandro Galli is a macro-ecologist and sustainability scientist, Mediterranean-MENA programme director at Global Footprint Network and a project manager at the University of Siena. Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori is a masters student in sustainable management at Uppsala University and director of the Swedish Organisation for Global Health, a youth-led organisation working to reduce health inequalities in low-income settings; Raluca Munteanu is environmental sustainability manager there.

Éloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Alessandro Galli, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori and Raluca Munteanu

How to achieve a ‘health renaissance’

Éloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Alessandro Galli, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori and Raluca Munteanu 19th May 2021

Health and the environment have often been seen as costs on ‘the economy’. The pandemic has shown they are its foundations.

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The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out!


It is time to take action and to forge a path towards a Socialist renewal.


European Socialists struggle to balance their responsibilities with the need to take bold positions and actions in the face of many major crises, while far-right political parties are increasingly gaining ground. Against this background, we offer European progressive forces food for thought on projecting themselves into the future.


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