The decision by the European Council to bypass the Spitzenkandidaten process was an intergovernmental slap in the face for the European parties. Yet they are not so ‘European’ either.
Social Europe articles on politics
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An inclusive Green New Deal: the EU must raise its ambition, confidence and determination
In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Kirsty Hughes argues that a Green New Deal can gel the domestic and neighbourhood policies of the union.
Europe’s energy transition should not be an elite project
Climate change is rapidly rising as a public concern across Europe and citizens can and must be involved in policy-making on the energy transition.
Weighted voting, revolution and the applause in a concert hall
Branko Milanovic argues that, after all the struggles to universalise the franchise, one-person one-vote is not the summit of democracy at all.
Giving Europe political substance
In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Mary Kaldor argues that developing substantive democracy in Europe to tame neoliberal globalisation must be the Leitmotif for the coming European term.
A new ‘mode of action’ for Europe—prioritising the polity
In the latest contribution to our ‘Europe2025’ series, Sophie Pornschlegel argues the EU needs to rethink its mode of action, in addition to tackling the pressing policy challenges ahead.
Brexit and the left
The Labour Party has squandered three years in addressing the challenge posed by the Brexit referendum.
What’s driving populism?
If authoritarian populism is rooted in economics, then the appropriate remedy is a populism of another kind—targeting economic injustice and inclusion—but pluralist in its politics and not necessarily damaging to democracy.
The future of Europe: rebalancing ecology, economics and ethics
Europe needs a new eco-social paradigm if it is to ward off the populist sirens and offer a positive vision for the continent.
The EU needs a ‘Social Imbalances Procedure’
The focus of the European Union on fiscal consolidation has left European societies out of kilter and undermined the union’s legitimacy. A Social Imbalances Procedure could begin to put that right.
A defeat for the populist right isn’t always a win for the social-democratic left
The populist right and the social-democratic left may contest for the support of the popular classes but, Sheri Berman argues, it’s not a simple zero-sum game.
Austria’s smoking gun: Strache, ‘Ibiza-gate’ and ‘Saint’ Sebastian
Even such huge scandals, which lead to the dissolution of a government, resignation of a vice-chancellor and the disclosure of massive corruption, might conclude with more of the same.
