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Social Europe is an award-winning digital media publisher. We use the values of freedom, sustainability and equality as the foundation on which we examine society’s most pressing challenges. We are committed to publishing cutting-edge thinking and new ideas from the most thought-provoking people. This archive page brings together Social Europe articles on political issues.

Why we need a European supply-chain act

Michael Vassiliadis 22nd February 2022

Human-rights due diligence must be taken seriously—as the Brumadinho case showed.

Apprehend, detain, deport—towards a securitised EU?

Felix Bender 21st February 2022

Pushbacks at Europe’s borders have not been compliant with the Refugee Convention. Nor would internal ones.

Boris Johnson’s last affair?

Antara Haldar 17th February 2022

His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.

Beyond dystopia

Robert Misik 14th February 2022

To change the pessimistic Zeitgeist, left-wing politics and radical art must renew their alliance, Robert Misik writes.

Let them eat respect?

Jan-Werner Müller 14th February 2022

The idea that social-democratic parties should accommodate anti-immigrant sentiment is not only misguided but empirically wrong.

Europe and the future of US democracy

Bo Rothstein 10th February 2022

Europe needs to address the risk come 2024 of facing not only a non-democratic superpower to its east—but to its west too.

Corporate due diligence—it’s in short supply

Rosie Monaghan and Evie Clarke 8th February 2022

The EU must enforce robust human-rights due diligence in company supply chains.

Boris Johnson: a political career in freefall

Paul Mason 7th February 2022

The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power, Paul Mason writes. It’s lost that muscle memory.

Capital flight—stopping the looting of Africa

Léonce Ndikumana and James K Boyce 3rd February 2022

As with the coronavirus, the global north needs to recognise its interdependence with Africa when it comes to financial flows.

Freedom—we won’t let you down

Ania Skrzypek 2nd February 2022

Pandemic protests have mobilised the language of ‘freedom’. Progressives need to redefine that as emancipation.

Portugal: socialist victory and the morning after

Pedro Magalhães 31st January 2022

Why did the socialists win so big in Portugal? Maybe because they weren’t expected to.

Ukraine and the future of Europe

Joschka Fischer 31st January 2022

Vladimir Putin’s indulgence of his imperial impulses has far-reaching implications for Europe’s place in the world.

Portuguese elections too close to call

Eunice Goes 27th January 2022

Disharmony on the left could pave the way for a right-wing coalition government.

The future of Europe: who holds the baton?

Alberto Alemanno 27th January 2022

Political leaders must not turn the Conference on the Future of Europe into another EU black box.

The biggest killer of pandemic times: inequality

Jayati Ghosh 24th January 2022

‘Inequality’ is never the official cause of a death. But, writes Jayati Ghosh, that doesn’t mean it’s not.

The drama of the French presidential election

Christophe Sente and Timothée Duverger 24th January 2022

Social democracy is flatlining in a France which otherwise betrays common European features.

Macron wants EU ‘sovereignty’—but for whom?

Vicky Cann and Olivier Petitjean 19th January 2022

The French president has made ‘sovereignty’ a buzzword. Yet corporations seem to enjoy more than citizens.

A green developmentalism for Europe?

Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen 19th January 2022

The French EU presidency provides an opportunity to advance a ‘developmentalist’ strategy for the green transition.

While social apartheid endures, so will the pandemic

Ndileka Mandela 11th January 2022

Denying vaccination to Africa was always bound to rebound on the global north.

Unnecessary tradeoffs

Sheri Berman 10th January 2022

Progressive ideas can prevail in a democracy, Sheri Berman writes—but only if they are pitched in universal terms.

Russia: it’s raining men without umbrellas

Paul Emtsev 6th January 2022

What is Russia up to, at the Ukraine border and beyond? It takes a gender lens to see.

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