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Europe’s Wealth Gap Threatens Social Cohesion As Housing Crisis Deepens

Carlos Vacas-Soriano

Extreme wealth concentration across the EU undermines opportunity and security for millions while property ownership becomes increasingly unattainable.

Donald Trump — author portrait, Social Europe.

Trump’s Show of Force

Timothy Snyder

State governors are emerging as democracy's last defenders against federal overreach and military deployments.

Silhouette of a head with a cracked brain, facing four diverse individuals.

The Lethal Consensus: How Liberals Lost the War of Ideas

Dominic Afscharian

Bold visions defeat timid reforms—yet liberals insist on bringing policy briefs to an ideological gunfight.

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What Can AI In Colombian Classrooms Teach Europe About Democratic Innovation?

Deny Giovanno

When rural schools experiment with artificial intelligence, they reveal whether technology serves the many or the few.

Vladimir Putin — author portrait, Social Europe.

Why Putin Does Not Want Peace in Ukraine

Guillaume Duval

Even America's most Russia-friendly president cannot deliver the ceasefire Moscow's strategic calculations demand.

Donald Trump — author portrait, Social Europe.

Violence As Policy in Trump’s America

Jan-Werner Müller

Trump uses far-right activist's killing to justify violence while portraying himself as victim.

Protester with Polish flag and crowd, Social Europe.

The Far Right Is Winning In Austria—Even In Opposition

Gabriela Greilinger

Austria's government cuts welfare whilst hardening on immigration—a losing strategy that strengthens the far right.

Elderly man and woman in a car, reading a newspaper, mountains in background.

Germany’s Misguided War on Baby Boomers

Peter Bofinger

A prominent economist's attack on an entire generation ignores economic facts and threatens social cohesion.

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When Corporate Mergers Hurt Workers, Europe Must Act

Wouter Zwysen

Europe's merger watchdogs generally ignore labour market impacts, but there is a possibility for change.

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete as Policy: Why Deregulation Won’t Save EU Innovation

Aida Ponce Del Castillo

The European Commission's push to slash regulations in pursuit of competitiveness risks undermining the very foundations of technological progress.

Albert Einstein — author portrait, Social Europe.

The Middle East Conflict: What Would Albert Einstein Have Said?

Bo Rothstein

Albert Einstein’s genius for unconventional thinking offers a provocative framework for breaking today's deadly stalemate through economic compensation.

European Union flag with cityscape, Social Europe.

Federation or Vassalisation, It’s Decision Time

Josep Borell, Guy Verhofstadt and Domènec Ruiz Devesa

Europe must choose: federal union and self-determination, or decline into division and American vassalage.

Wind turbines in a forest with trees and leaves, eco-friendly energy concept.

The ECB Must Embrace Europe’s Green Finance Rules To Secure Both Climate Goals And Financial Stability

Gaston Bronstering and David Barmes

Integrating sustainable finance standards into central bank operations would align market incentives and strengthen the eurozone's climate resilience.

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The EU’s Industrial Policy Needs Better Governance

Wolfgang Polt

Europe's fragmented approach to industrial strategy undermines its ability to compete with China and the United States.

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Europe’s Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today’s Grand Challenges

Rainer Kattel

Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.

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Industrial Policy Must Include Citizens And Workers

Werner Raza

Europe's twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.

Person in safety gear overlooking wind turbines and landscape.

Europe’s Green Jobs Crisis: Why Slow Decarbonisation Threatens Employment More Than Climate Action

Béla Galgóczi

Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.

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New Edition - Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2025

Can Europe preserve its distinctive social model while simultaneously rearming, reindustrialising, and reorganising its economy in a more conflictual and competitive world? This is the central question raised in this new edition of the Bilan social, a reference publication released every spring for more than 25 years by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE).

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The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out! 

The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

The new issue of the magazine also reflects on how we struggle to keep pace with AI innovations, examines the uncertainties surrounding the execution of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the risk to human rights posed by the Return Regulation, and focuses on the EU Commission's newly proposed Industrial Accelerator Act.

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The 2025 collective bargaining year in Germany was once again characterised by numerous strikes. The WSI recorded 261 industrial disputes in 2025. For the first time, the WSI has also quantitatively analysed the trade unions` industrial action objectives for 2025.

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“What is the actual purpose of the state?” – this central question is the focus of the analysis. At a time when bureaucratic processes are making life difficult for citizens, the paper proposes a three-part model. It aims at a conception of the state as a platform that helps society build the capabilities it needs to address its problems effectively.

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