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

Is online micromanagement a form of cyberbullying?

Sara Riso

As remote work rises, micromanagement can blur into bullying, impacting employee well-being and workplace culture.

Why Europe’s Migration Crisis Starts in Africa

Robert Skidelsky

Europe can’t solve its migration crisis without tackling Africa’s poverty and instability at the source.

How the EU should tackle the housing crisis

Elizabeth Kuiper and Javier Carbonell

The EU has its first Commissioner for Housing, Dan Jørgensen, but his mission will only succeed if the EU manages to come up with a joined-up approach.

Outsourcing our future to for-profit AI

Katharina Pistor

The recent AI Nobel Prize win and California’s vetoed AI safety bill highlight the growing trend of placing our future in the hands of private corporations, with little public accountability.

AI Is Threatening More Than Just Creative Jobs—It’s Undermining Our Humanity

Daniel Mugge

The debate on AI and job loss misses the deeper impact: by automating creativity, we risk devaluing the very essence of human expression.

Can Universal Basic Income really improve mental health?

Olivier De Schutter and Philippe van Parijs

Recent UBI trials reveal that guaranteed income provides immediate mental health relief, but sustaining long-term benefits may depend on lasting economic security.

How Trump’s energy policies could set America back decades

Joseph Stiglitz

Just as Donald Trump’s overall economic strategy is based on nostalgia for a bygone era, his fossil-fuel-centered energy policies would represent a quixotic attempt to reverse history.

Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU

Mary McCaughey

What should Europe do about inequality? The start is to recognise some of its citizens are more equal than others.

The canker among Europe’s roses

Ankita Anand

Europe’s love for flowers, Ankita Anand writes, ignores their often tainted roots.

Renewables and agriculture—friends, not foes

Hannah O'Sullivan and Cosimo Tansini

There is enough land in Europe for wholly renewable energy without compromising nature protection or food production.

The case for a global climate assembly

Laurence Tubiana and Ana Toni

Only a minority of respondents in recent surveys trust their governments to achieve a just transition.

Criminalising climate protest while ignoring the crisis

Lotte Leicht and Trevor Stankiewicz

The scales of justice are tilted against peaceful protesters—while those responsible for the crisis act with impunity.

Saving the planet from plastics

Jayati Ghosh

If corporate interests undermine efforts to reduce plastic manufacturing, they will derail the fight against climate change.

Trust in crisis: Europe’s social contract under threat

Massimiliano Mascherini

The corrosion of trust underlies many of the social pathologies of today—but there are solutions.

Between the cracks: third-country posted workers

Josephine Assmus, Anita Heindlmaier and Susanne Schmidt

Effective transnational co-operation is required to protect third-country posted workers from abuses.

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