The Austrian far-right FPÖ’s likely return to government raises concerns about the erosion of liberal democracy.

This idea of putting people first has always been the core of Europe’s social market economy. We want strong social partners.

Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social ...

Amid crises, breakthroughs at the G20 and UN offer hope for global cooperation and fairness.

How the EU must act to survive mounting global threats. At the beginning of December, as the new European Commission began ...

Social Europe (SE) is a globally recognised digital media platform committed to advancing democracy by tackling the critical political, economic, and social challenges of our time. Grounded in the ...

As climate change worsens, Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers against events that are no longer so unpredictable. The development of robust legal ...

As authoritarian regimes rise globally, progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline. In one of Ernest Hemingway’s famous ...

Shaping European Policy in the second half of the 2020s" project, conducted in collaboration with our partners at the ...

There was a proud and defiant atmosphere outside the headquarters of The Guardian newspaper in London last week. The “chapel” (that is, workforce) had voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, and here ...