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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.

Ukraine war: the west is at a crossroads

Stefan Wolff 22nd February 2024

It must double down on aid to Kyiv, accept a compromise deal or face humiliation by Russia.

Germany: an elegy for principled humanitarianism

Lys Kulamadayil 21st February 2024

Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza has fallen victim to other than humanitarian considerations.

What works for the left? Liberal socialism

Bo Rothstein 20th February 2024

As the European Parliament elections loom, with the populists rising, progressives need a liberal-left narrative.

Ukraine war: Zelenskyy’s very risky move

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko 14th February 2024

Kyiv needs a fundamental rethink of its strategy, not just a reshuffle of the military leadership.

Ukraine and Europe: speaking truth to ourselves

Sergio Fabbrini 10th February 2024

The war in Ukraine has two major implications for Europe and Europeans. Unfortunately, they are contradictory.

Germany’s protests: defying a national stereotype

Philipp Gassert 9th February 2024

The wave of demonstrations against the Alternative für Deutschland is no surprise, given Germany’s postwar history.

Backsliding in Belgrade: Serbia’s European future

Angelica Vascotto 8th February 2024

Serbia is rapidly veering off its accession course, with a potentially fraudulent election and growing distance from EU foreign policy.

Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America

Paul Mason 5th February 2024

A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.

Ukraine war: corruption and politico-military tensions

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko 4th February 2024

Corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid.

A sharp right turn: European Parliament election forecast

Kevin Cunningham, Susi Dennison, Simon Hix and Imogen Learmonth 30th January 2024

Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.

Europe and conflict prevention: better than cure

Željana Zovko 30th January 2024

The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.

Preparing Russia for permanent war

Nina L Khrushcheva 26th January 2024

Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.

Refugees and Rwanda: the Tories’ road to perdition

Colin Crouch 24th January 2024

Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.

Israel, Hamas and the Gaza war: delusion and reality

Robert Misik 22nd January 2024

Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.

The global consequences of the war in Ukraine

Joschka Fischer 20th January 2024

That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.

Gaza war: the genocide case against Israel

Carlo Aldrovandi 17th January 2024

Whatever the legal determination, Israel already faces a symbolic reversal in the claim of ‘genocide’ against it in The Hague.

Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy

Gesine Schwan and Robin Wilson 16th January 2024

It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.

When ‘never again’ becomes ‘again and again’

Gabriela Greilinger 16th January 2024

The dalliance of the German AfD with neo-Nazis is echoed by the brazenness of the far right in Austria.

Identity politics: in defence of ‘old white men’

Eszter Kováts 15th January 2024

Arguments over who has a right to speak, Eszter Kováts writes, should give way to discussing what they say.

Smersh: Putin reinstates Stalin’s anti-spy unit

Marina Miron and Rod Thornton 15th January 2024

The move may be seen as a further indication of the increasing clampdown on all forms of internal dissent in Russia.

Agreement on migration or political gesture?

Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas 11th January 2024

The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.

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