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

European Pillar of Social Rights,social pillar

EU credibility as a people’s union rests on the social pillar

by Liina Carr on 24th February 2021

Buffeted by the pandemic and by populism, the EU needs the European Pillar of Social Rights to become a solid anchor of security for all.

vaccine nationalism,Big Pharma

Vaccine nationalism won’t defeat the pandemic

by Sharan Burrow on 23rd February 2021

International co-operation is vital to make vaccination, as a public good, available to all.

anti-extremism,anti-feminist

Fewer Italians than Swedes hold anti-feminist views

by Tatev Hovhannisyan on 17th February 2021

New research from anti-extremism charities reveals ‘unexpected patterns’ of opinions towards feminism across Europe.

intellectual property rights,private patents

The false scarcity of vaccine trade tensions

by Katie Gallogly-Swan on 8th February 2021

The row over the EU introducing vaccine export controls has occluded its rejection of a temporary waiver on intellectual property rights.

European Year of Rail,rail renaissance

A rail renaissance for Europe

by Lena Donat on 28th January 2021

The European Year of Rail can support the Green Deal and sustainable recovery. Europe needs more international trains with easier booking.

Biden,worker,union,labour,labor

Big Tech media and the EU’s weak reed of ‘competition’

by Steven Hill on 26th January 2021

The attack on the US Capitol revealed the dangers of Big Tech media platforms—but envisaged EU competition laws won’t fix them.

educational inequality,inclusive education

Must try harder: recovering from educational inequality

by Shane Markowitz on 19th January 2021

School closures during the pandemic have hit socially excluded students hard. The EU needs to ensure every child can reach their potential.

cultural professionals,cultural workers

Culture, creativity and coronavirus: time for EU action

by Elena Polivtseva on 19th January 2021

The pandemic has highlighted a longer-term failure adequately to address the working conditions of cultural professionals in Europe.

European Youth Guarantee

Reinforced European Youth Guarantee can be a lifeline

by Sergei Stanishev, Iratxe García Pérez, Ana Mendes Godinho, Agnes Jongerius, László Andor and Paul Magnette on 18th January 2021

A strengthened European Youth Guarantee allows member states to tackle rising youth unemployment—Eurostat figures show that’s urgent.

European health union

Our good health: economic fuel or core value?

by Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Gediminas Cerniauskas and Birute Tumiene on 14th January 2021

Solidarity in health has never been so urgent or imperative—a European Health Union would be its ideal expression.

Covid 19 vaccine

Designing vaccines for people, not profits

by Mariana Mazzucato, Henry Lishi Li and Els Torreele on 2nd December 2020

For all the hope spurred by the efficacy announcements of multiple Covid-19 vaccine candidates, national and private interests are trumping health justice.

social models, European social model

Not part of Europe anyway?

by James Wickham on 30th November 2020

The language of the Brexit stand-off is of a ‘level playing-field’ versus ‘sovereignty’. But beneath that, it’s about divergent social models.

care

Care, capitalism and politics

by Kathleen Lynch on 26th November 2020

The coronavirus crisis has highlighted how the welfare state of the future must be built on an ethic of care rather than self-interest.

economic democracy, employee ownership

Greater equality: our guide through Covid-19 to sustainable wellbeing

by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on 25th November 2020

The pandemic has reinforced the case for egalitarianism to define the ethos of the welfare state.

Digital Services Act, ethical journalism

How good journalism can drive out bad

by Olaf Steenfadt on 24th November 2020

With a Digital Services Act in the offing, regulation of platforms can make public-interest journalism sustainable again.

social protection floors

The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come

by Olivier De Schutter on 17th November 2020

The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of social protection, especially in the developing world. A new global fund is needed—and it’s affordable.

right to the city

The smart city—a social city

by Estrella Durá Ferrandis and Cristina Helena Lago on 13th November 2020

For decades urban development has followed the impulses of capital. The right to a home and the right to the city must be won by the citizens.

pact on migration and asylum

A new pact for asylum in Europe?

by Mohamoud Yusuf on 11th November 2020

The European Commission is caught between the needs of frontline states receiving refugees and those in the rear resisting responsibility-sharing.

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Social Europe Publishing book

With a pandemic raging, for those countries most affected by Brexit the end of the transition could not come at a worse time. Yet, might the UK's withdrawal be a blessing in disguise? With its biggest veto player gone, might the European Pillar of Social Rights take centre stage? This book brings together leading experts in European politics and policy to examine social citizenship rights across the European continent in the wake of Brexit. Will member states see an enhanced social Europe or a race to the bottom?

'This book correctly emphasises the need to place the future of social rights in Europe front and centre in the post-Brexit debate, to move on from the economistic bias that has obscured our vision of a progressive social Europe.' Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland


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Renewing labour relations in the German meat industry: an end to 'organised irresponsibility'?

Over the course of 2020, repeated outbreaks of Covid-19 in a number of large German meat-processing plants led to renewed public concern about the longstanding labour abuses in this industry. New legislation providing for enhanced inspection on health and safety, together with a ban on contract work and limitations on the use of temporary agency employees, holds out the prospect of a profound change in employment practices and labour relations in the meat industry. Changes in the law are not sufficient, on their own, to ensure decent working conditions, however. There is also a need to re-establish the previously high level of collective-bargaining coverage in the industry, underpinned by an industry-wide collective agreement extended by law to cover the entire sector.


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