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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.

War in Gaza: the silence of Europe’s leaders

Zafiris Tzannatos 14th November 2023

The European Union must find a collective and distinctive voice to seek to rein in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Social democracy in the global south at a crossroads

Marc Saxer 13th November 2023

Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.

Big tent: the social-democratic election formula

László Andor 9th November 2023

A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.

A new world order: from warring states to citizens

Paul Mason 6th November 2023

It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.

Germany and Ukraine: avoiding refugee tensions

Taras Romashchenko 6th November 2023

A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.

Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics

Meryl Kenny 27th October 2023

Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.

The EU and the inevitability of immigration

Sergio Scandizzo 25th October 2023

Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.

Israel, Hamas, war crimes and the ICC

Catherine Gegout 24th October 2023

The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse

Robert Misik 23rd October 2023

Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.

Rethinking the nation, beyond nativism

Ash Amin 23rd October 2023

Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.

The struggle for a just peace in Israel and Palestine

Nathalie Tocci and Akram Ezzamouri 20th October 2023

The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.

Israel’s evacuation order violates international law

Jane McAdam and Ben Saul 18th October 2023

International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.

Poland’s historic election: democracy won

Maria Skóra 18th October 2023

With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.

Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective

Bo Rothstein 18th October 2023

An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.

Drawing the consequences from the Várhelyi affair

Arthur Colin and Henri Lastenouse 16th October 2023

The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.

‘Trigger points’ and the polarisation entrepreneurs

Eszter Kováts 16th October 2023

Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.

Elections in Germany: the far right and the firewall

Christina Keßler 11th October 2023

The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.

On the road to (no)where? The SDGs at half-time

Werner Raza 9th October 2023

In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.

Slovakia: could this be Fico’s last hurrah?

Erika Harris 7th October 2023

The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.

Nagorno-Karabakh: it’s not over yet

Svante Lundgren 2nd October 2023

The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its ‘reliable energy partner’.

Ukraine’s cause: momentum is diminishing

Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko 26th September 2023

In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.

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