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Europe’s Quest for Technological Sovereignty: A Feasible Path Amidst Global Rivalries

Christian Reiner and Roman Stöllinger

The European Union must pursue robust industrial policies to counter technological dependencies and safeguard its future prosperity and stability.

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Reclaiming Sutan Sjahrir: The Quiet Moral Core of Democratic Socialism in Southeast Asia

Deny Giovanno

Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia’s first Prime Minister, offers a forgotten blueprint for ethical leadership.

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A Fair Future?  How Equality Will Define Europe’s Next Chapter

Kate Pickett

Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.

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A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

José Miguel Ahumada and Fernando Sossdorf

The Global South must redefine industrial policy to build new productive capabilities and address escalating global challenges.

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Europe’s Green Transition: A Fund Under Pressure

Valeria Cirillo, Marialuisa Divella, Lidia Greco and Eustachio Ferrulli

The EU's flagship Just Transition Fund, designed to mitigate social inequalities, faces significant challenges in achieving its ambitious goals.

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Housing Crisis Threatens to Fracture Central and Eastern Europe

Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop and Cosmin Marian

A lack of affordable housing in urban centres is driving political instability across Central and Eastern Europe.

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AI’s Impact on Europe’s Job Market: A Call for a Social Compact

Federico Pozzi and Pietro Valetto

The European Union must urgently address AI's profound impact on employment, income, and social cohesion.

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Europe’s Perilous Path: It’s a Rush Before the Crash

Jan Zielonka

Europe is on a self-destructive course with no plausible remedies for mounting problems. The result is widespread uncertainty, helplessness and fear.

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The EU’s Landmark Mercosur Deal Promises Much But Delivers Little

Simela Papatheophilou, Werner Raza and Bernhard Tröster

The revised EU-Mercosur trade deal offers limited economic benefits for Europe, while its environmental provisions may undermine the bloc’s climate ambitions.

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Will Denmark Lead Europe Towards a Super-Rich Tax?

Isabelle Brachet

Despite past failures, growing public support and recent international initiatives offer Copenhagen an opportunity to push for wealth taxation.

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Britain Rediscovers Europe as Macron and Merz Lead a Democratic Reawakening

Polly Toynbee

With Trump looming and war in Europe, Britain finds renewed purpose in unity with France and Germany.

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Europe’s Appeasement Dilemma: The Price of Standing Against Putin

Frank Hoffer

While the West rightly resists Russian aggression, European leaders risk self-respect and global standing by appeasing Donald Trump.

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The ECB’s Strategic Review: A Betrayal of Europe’s Workers

Ludovic Voet

The European Central Bank's latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour's vital role.

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Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working

Paul Mason

Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications.

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America’s Systemic Chaos Strategy: Europe Must Forge a New Path

Mario Pianta

The United States' latest tariffs on Europe and Mexico demand a bold European response to reshape the global order.

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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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In this episode of Eurofound Talks, host Mary McCaughey and senior researcher Eszter Sandor unpack the results of the 2025 Living and Working in the EU e-survey. While headline inflation has stabilised at 2.1%, the data reveals a continent gripped by chronic precariousness, with 57% of respondents now at risk of depression. Mary and Eszter explore how this economic insecurity is impacting institutional trust and democratic engagement.

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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 climate crisis and global migration are closely linked. Emancipatory forces must demand and defend the right to be able to leave, but not to have to leave. This means defending and expanding asylum rights.

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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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