Social Rights: The View from the Council of Europe
During the High-level Conference on Social Rights this month in Chișinău, Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, gave an exclusive interview to Social Europe.
Social Rights: The Idea Whose Time Has Come?
A remarkable consensus on social rights is emerging as Europe’s answer to inequality, democratic backsliding and geopolitical upheaval.
The capacity to ‘compete’—rethinking the welfare state
Anton Hemerijck, Azizjon Bagadirov and Robin Wilson
Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social investment.
Social rights—securing Europe’s future
In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.
Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy
Gesine Schwan and Robin Wilson
It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.
Facing Europe’s huge challenges
The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine.
Impartiality and public-service media
The media storm in Britain around a television personality speaks volumes about why the UK has become a dysfunctional state.
Brexit: why does Northern Ireland matter so much?
So little appears at stake in the Northern Ireland protocol yet it’s at the heart of the Brexit deadlock. But then it’s a proxy for something else.
Northern Ireland—the unhappy ending Europe’s story must avoid
Europe has always had its anti-enlightenment side. Northern Ireland graphically presents its extreme manifestation.
Universal Basic Income: a disarmingly simple idea—and fad
Universal basic income is a disarmingly simple idea based on a disarmingly simple premise. The digital revolution threatens massive technological unemployment; ergo, every citizen should
Social Europe Needs A Positive Vision
In his magisterial One Hundred Years of Socialism, Donald Sassoon described how, under the influence of the 19th century German leader Karl Kautsky, the European