Social Europe articles on politics

Deliveroo ‘riders’ are workers and not self-employed, according to Spanish courts.

The evidence shows that citizens are willing to exhibit more European solidarity than has so far been appreciated or tested.

Karin Pettersson argues that progressive politics is floundering in the waves generated by Big Data—when it could be shaping the tide.

Proroguing Westminster is a transparent manoeuvre by Boris Johnson to set up a ‘people versus Parliament’ election, even with the UK on course to crash out of the EU.

To focus on online platforms in isolation would miss the point that they are part of a wider phenomenon of spreading and intensifying precarity at work.

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.

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.

Branko Milanovic argues that, after all the struggles to universalise the franchise, one-person one-vote is not the summit of democracy at all.