Social Europe articles on politics

Research on pushbacks of asylum-seekers reveals a massive number of such human-rights violations—yet it could be just the tip of the iceberg.

The threat to veto EU financing arrangements if tied to the rule of law is gone—but the elephant is still in the room.

Sheri Berman argues that the embourgeoisement of centre-left parties has fostered a crisis of representation, at the heart of democratic dissatisfaction.

Europe is moving on to green and social-democratic terrain. But German Christian democracy and French centrism are taking it there.

A workable asylum policy in line with European values could be pursued by a Schengen-style coalition of the willing.

If the finger is to be pointed—rightly—at Hungary and Poland, then the EU must insist on compliance by all with universal norms.