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Social Europe articles on politics

Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher that publishes content examining issues in politics, economy and employment & labour. This archive brings together Social Europe articles on political issues.

sovereignty

The EU is muddling through another crisis—which may be good enough

by Peter Verovšek on 2nd July 2020

The divisions exposed by the coronavirus have reopened fundamental questions about the ultimate aims of the EU. But now is not the time to answer them.

protests

The Main Street manifesto

by Nouriel Roubini on 30th June 2020

The historic protests which have swept America were long overdue, not just as a response to racism and police violence but also as a revolt against entrenched plutocracy.

Brexit deal, no deal

Technological sovereignty—and a sepia-image Britain

by Paul Mason on 30th June 2020

Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values.

health and safety, occupational safety and health

Rekindled north-south stereotypes are harmful for the European project

by Maria Petmesidou and Ana Guillén on 25th June 2020

Underlying the divisions bedeviling a recovery from the pandemic are stereotypes echoing those which emerged during the eurozone crisis.

remote working

A new social contract

by Sharan Burrow on 24th June 2020

The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model—a new social contract can help us build a new one.

explainable AI, XAI

Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms

by Martin Schüßler on 24th June 2020

Since AI involves interactions between machines and humans—rather than just the former replacing the latter—’explainable AI’ is a new challenge.

Covid-19 women

Covid-19 fallout takes higher toll on women

by Massimiliano Mascherini and Martina Bisello on 23rd June 2020

While women appear to be more resilient than men to Covid-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout.

Hungary and Poland, Poland and Hungary

Yes, someone is to blame

by James K Galbraith and Albena Azmanova on 23rd June 2020

A pandemic may be represented as a ‘natural disaster’. A global depression is however the product of ideology and powerful political actors.

centre left,representation gap,dissatisfaction with democracy

Protests, the left and the power of democracy

by Sheri Berman on 22nd June 2020

Sheri Berman urges the American left not to squander the sea-change in public opinion of recent weeks by only preaching to the converted.

cleavages

Pandemic deepens social and political cleavages

by Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor on 22nd June 2020

The coronavirus crisis has inflamed cleavages in democratic societies which will be difficult to heal.

welfare, welfare states, welfare institutions

Welfare states need reinforcement, not reinvention

by Silja Häusermann and Jane Gingrich on 18th June 2020

Old ideas about welfare are not broken—but the politics sustaining them is in peril.

social commons, social protection

Social commons: the social protection we want

by Francine Mestrum on 18th June 2020

Universal basic income would offer a deadweight subsidy to low-paying employers. The route to security for all lies in the concept of ‘social commons’.

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