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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 political issues, offering a rich resource for innovative thinking and informed debate.

UK’s Rwanda bill is doomed for political failure

Mireia Faro Sarrats and Tarek Megerisi 26th April 2024

Not only does such a policy not work to deter migration—it will politically damage any party that adopts it.

New EU ‘own resources’ needed for new challenges

Margit Schratzenstaller 24th April 2024

The EU budget is too small and too based on member-state contributions, fostering a short-sighted mentality.

Misunderstanding Hungary’s ‘anti-colonial’ turn

Zoltán Ginelli 24th April 2024

Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán’s narrative of railing against ‘Brussels’.

Georgia sliding towards autocracy

Natasha Lindstaedt 24th April 2024

Georgia is sliding towards autocracy after its government moves to force through a bill on ‘foreign agents’.

On a plane with Nicolas Schmit

Roland Erne 22nd April 2024

The lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists sets out his political stall for the European Parliament elections in June.

Social democracy: its history and its future

Eunice Goes 19th April 2024

Political scientist Eunice Goes explains the vicissitudes of social democracy historically and addresses its contemporary challenges.

Ukraine is losing and the west faces a stark choice

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko 18th April 2024

Ukraine is losing the war. If the west does not help now, it will face a resurgent and aggressive Russia.

Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric

Paul Mason 15th April 2024

Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.

Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability

Joanne Krus and Gemma Bird 11th April 2024

As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.

The world’s moral failure in Gaza

Graça Machel 5th April 2024

The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.

Defending the rule of law in the EU

Daniel Freund 4th April 2024

The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.

The case for a radical, liberal left

Robert Misik 1st April 2024

We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.

Socialist hegemony: construction time again

Carl Rowlands 1st April 2024

Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.

Gaza: status of UN Security Council ceasefire demand

Amanda Cahill-Ripley 28th March 2024

Is the security council ‘demand’ for a ceasefire legally binding? Here is what international law says.

The missing migrants: myriad preventable deaths

Ugochi Daniels 27th March 2024

People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.

Gaza: a population being starved into submission

Nnenna Awah 26th March 2024

With access to food aid denied by Israel, two-thirds of a million Gazans already face ‘catastrophe’.

Hungary’s unedifying political wordplays

Eszter Kováts 25th March 2024

The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.

Gaza: UN humanitarian intervention needed

Luke Cooper, Mary Kaldor and Marika Theros 22nd March 2024

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.

How to treat German democracy’s malaise

Johanna Lutz, Ludwig List and Filip Milačić 22nd March 2024

The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.

Protecting EP employees from harassment

Gabriele Bischoff 19th March 2024

The European Parliament should be setting the gold standard in ensuring the wellbeing of its staff.

Ukraine war: Russia’s hold on Crimea loosens

Stefan Wolff 18th March 2024

Ten years after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, annexed Crimea, its grip on the peninsula looks shaky.

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