Social Europe articles on politics

US political dysfunctionality is put down to partisanship and polarisation. But Sheri Berman argues it’s the issue agenda that counts.

Joe Biden was the most pro-labour presidential nominee in years. But he’s fighting a pandemic and faces the antiquated US political system.

The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.

The pandemic provides no excuse for inaction by the European Commission on gender pay transparency. It should be the incentive.

Branko Milanovic worries that in the new global constellation a second cold war—with China—could be in the offing.

Knut Dethlefsen offers a personal reflection on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Strengthening of civil society, construction of democratic institutions and economic support must all figure in an EU agenda for a post-Lukashenka Belarus.

The pandemic-linked crisis is not the time for fiscal consolidation. But introducing a genuinely progressive tax system will become essential.

‘Brexit’ stemmed from the takeover of the Tory party by its Eurosceptic fringe, whose prejudices will now collide with reality.

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.