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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.

Belarus: toughness towards the regime, solidarity with the people

Frank Hoffer 1st June 2021

Alongside working to confront Lukashenka, the EU should offer respite to those threatened by his dictatorship.

Double standards on Palestine will come back to haunt the EU

Andrea Dessi 31st May 2021

The EU needs to engage in a paradigm shift on the Israel-Palestine conflict if it is not to be left behind by events.

Catalonia: time for a gesture?

Tom Canetti 28th May 2021

Spain’s Supreme Court has put Pedro Sánchez between a rock and a hard place.

Recognising people on the move

Andrea Mammone 27th May 2021

Europe cannot continue to treat those who arrive on its margins—as in Ceuta—as mere flotsam and jetsam to be repelled.

Europe failing its solidarity test

Rosa Pavanelli 25th May 2021

By blocking Covid-19 vaccine patent waivers, the EU is damaging its reputation and holding the world back.

Sofagate is proof: women deserve a seat where it really matters

Zita Gurmai and Maria Noichl 18th May 2021

The Council of the EU needs a gender-equality, diversity and anti-discrimination configuration to ensure these themes are a priority on the European political agenda.

Can Italy’s centre-right coalition recover from far-right influence?

Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi 13th May 2021

The EU recovery package is now being translated into national plans—and, as Italy shows, the implications are not just economic.

Hard Labour

Paul Mason 10th May 2021

Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way.

Next steps for a people’s vaccine

Jayati Ghosh 10th May 2021

Ending the pandemic requires not only an intellectual-property rights waiver but scaling up knowledge transfer and public production of vaccine supplies.

Decentralising and democratising while reforming European economic governance

Vivien Schmidt 9th May 2021

The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to address how EU governance can be refitted to end the crisis of legitimacy.

Beyond the ‘Brussels bubble’

Luke Cooper, Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz and Niccolò Milanese 9th May 2021

The Conference on the Future of Europe needs to engage to the full the diversity and dynamism of European civil society.

Will ‘strategic autonomy 3.0’ deliver?

Davide Schmid and Scott Lavery 6th May 2021

The vision of Europe as an autonomous global actor has much in its favour—except that we have been here before.

Austerity is risking our future!

Carl Mühlbach and Felix Kösterke 28th April 2021

Those who would have to endure the consequences of Germany’s harmful fiscal restraint can be forgiven for baulking at it.

Covid-19 in India—profits before people

Jayati Ghosh 27th April 2021

Jayati Ghosh explains why more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported in India daily—and what that says about our world.

Erdoğan is feeling the heat

Seren Selvin Korkmaz 26th April 2021

Growing economic pains and a more united opposition threaten the Turkish president’s grip. His regime resorts to ever more repression.

Northern Ireland—the unhappy ending Europe’s story must avoid

Robin Wilson 15th April 2021

Europe has always had its anti-enlightenment side. Northern Ireland graphically presents its extreme manifestation.

The European Union and global governance

Guido Montani 13th April 2021

The EU’s strategic ambition must not be just to carve out a niche for itself among the major powers but to reshape global governance.

Nineteen Burmese protesters sentenced to death—Europe get off your sofa!

Frank Hoffer 13th April 2021

The military in Myanmar is fully aware of Europe’s response to the killing spree against democracy protesters. It is not impressed.

Europe’s democratic renewal needs a feminist slant

Iratxe García Pérez 12th April 2021

The Conference on the Future of Europe shouldn’t degenerate into political theatre. Politicians need to listen and give a voice to citizens.

Dealing with the right-wing populist challenge

Sheri Berman 12th April 2021

Sheri Berman explores what the Swedish case reveals about strategies to adopt towards right-wing populist parties.

A European wealth tax

Jakob Kapeller, Stuart Leitch and Rafael Wildauer 9th April 2021

A European wealth tax could be a ‘win-win’ strategy for reducing extreme wealth inequality and funding the recovery from the pandemic.

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