Social Europe articles on politics

There is a widespread sense of a crisis of representation in Europe. Can a platform for crowdfunding and volunteering support political innovation?

Any reform efforts must be as inclusive as possible towards central and eastern European states, where nationalist parties are gaining ground.

For Branko Milanovic the limits of Europe are set by the inequality successive EU enlargements have enhanced.

Workers in Ireland are still bearing the brunt after the Celtic Tiger’s demise—but with a modest gain against the precarisation of work.

The elections in Spain represented a modest victory for the outgoing Socialists but the rhetoric of the right recalled a much darker era.

Karin Pettersson says we can have Big Tech’s market domination, business models and democracy—just not all at the same time.

The outgoing European Commission had some successes. But it was more defined by its shortcomings.

Mayday, mayday: the leader of the European trade union movement warns of the threat from the populists in the coming EP elections.

The president of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament reflects on her retirement at the forthcoming elections and on the battles to come.