Social Europe articles on politics

A European Green Deal faces not only internal challenges: its success depends on the construction of a wider global order.

The rejection by the European Parliament of Slyvie Goulard as French commissioner showed that ‘it’s France’ is not a sufficient excuse for special treatment.

High emigration rates are doing massive damage to the prospects of the western Balkans—would a stronger EU perspective reverse this outflow?

Access for the states concerned, most immediately for North Macedonia and Albania, would be many years off—but the symbolism is important.

Karin Pettersson argues that ‘free speech’ is not a licence for politicians relying on rage to lie, and for such lies to be amplified by ‘social media’.

The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.

A Child Guarantee can be a second launchpad for investing in children.

Children without or at risk of losing parental care represent a stain on Europe’s moral conscience.

The Portuguese governmental ‘contraption’ has turned out to be surprisingly enduring—so much so that it may face another term

The US Business Roundtable statement in favour of stakeholder rather than shareholder capitalism has opened the question of corporate responsibility—crucially, it extends to global supply chains.

Much was expected of the new climate package negotiated by the grand-coalition government in Berlin. Less was delivered.