Running towards inclusion: the power of sports
The Paralympics highlight the need for year-round activity to include people with disabilities in sports.
Society
Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher driven by the core values of freedom, sustainability, and equality. These principles guide our exploration of society’s most pressing challenges. This archive page curates Social Europe articles focused on societal issues, offering a rich resource for innovative thinking and informed debate.
Neoliberalism is blocking green growth
Climate change is a global challenge, yet trade rules do not allow developing countries to break with neoliberal orthodoxy.
Social dialogue: defending democracy in practice
In the face of the threat from the far right, trade unions represent democracy’s strongest supporters.
Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?
Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed, promised initiatives on affordable housing and poverty. Ending poverty by 2040 should be the goal.
How Big Oil gaslights Europe on climate policy
In the race against climate catastrophe, decades-old fossil-fuel-industry narratives retard the green transition.
Pornography, patriarchy and the western Balkans
Revenge pornography is rife in the western Balkans. Ahead of EU accession, abuse laws need radical reform.
Labour’s labour agenda—and a European reset
A worker-centred agenda from the new UK government could counterbalance the European shift to the right.
Development: better days could lie ahead (yes, really)
Overwhelmed by the ‘polycrisis’, it is easy to miss some positive indicators of global development.
The young generation needs quality traineeships
The proposed directive regulating traineeships must push the envelope on European Union social policy.
The assault on labour rights in Finland
The right-wing government and employers have represented the reforms as in line with the ‘Nordic model’ they seek to dismantle.
Climate capabilities: realising the green transition
People are not unaware of climate change, Lisa Pelling writes. But they find it difficult to imagine the green transition.
Social rights—securing Europe’s future
In Vilnius, at a high-level conference on the European Social Charter, it felt like a paradigm shift was taking place.
Pensions in Switzerland: how a rise was won
Swiss workers face a better retirement outlook thanks to a successful trade-union initiative.
Agriculture emissions: Danes not following the herd
Denmark’s tax on greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture is a reason for hope—but not complacency.
The destitution that sets the UK apart from Europe
Social stigma against welfare benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain.
Leaving the Energy Charter Treaty—it’s not so easy
The European Union has given notice of its withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty. There is still much to do.