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Europe’s democracies are failing their youth as short-sighted policies prioritise the needs of older generations, leaving young people without a voice or a future. Andrew Watt has officially taken up his new post as General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in October 2024, bringing his extensive expertise in economic ...
Society Archives • Social Europe
Sep 16, 2024 · 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 …
Politics Archives - Social Europe
Oct 31, 2024 · Far-Right wins in Austria and Germany: what mainstream parties keep getting wrong. Cas Mudde and Gabriela Greilinger 11th October 2024. Recent far-right victories in Europe reveal the dangerous effects of mainstreaming extremist views and the urgent need for a new political strategy.
Social democracy: its history and its future - Social Europe
Apr 19, 2024 · You mentioned that in the postwar period perhaps they could have done something else. The postwar period was actually very challenging for social democracy because, with the exception of Britain right after the second world war, where it won a landslide victory but very shortly afterwards was in opposition, and with the exception of Scandinavian countries, social-democratic parties were in ...
EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste - Social Europe
Feb 7, 2023 · EU social agenda beyond 2024—no time to waste. As a high-level group on social protection and welfare reports today, Belgium’s social-affairs minister advances the next EU social agenda. Platform workers in Turin: many fall through the welfare safety-net because they are not recognised as employees—in 2021 the public prosecutor’s office ...
Social Europe against all odds—but is it enough?
Jul 23, 2024 · The guidelines promise a first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan. Von der Leyen acknowledges that European households are spending an ever-growing portion of their income on housing expenses. Between 2010 and 2022, average house prices increased by 47 per cent and rents by 18 per cent, while median incomes in the EU27 rose by 31 per cent.
Europe needs a social compass - Social Europe
May 4, 2023 · Europe needs a social compass. Europe is undergoing multiple transitions. For these to succeed, social dialogue to build consensus will be essential. The world of work is in turmoil. It is increasingly obvious that for all the slogans pronounced during the pandemic—‘building back better’, ‘investing in resilience’, ‘recovery and ...
Addressing poverty and inequality in Europe - Social Europe
Jan 15, 2019 · Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, has published official figures on pan-European poverty and inequality since 2005, in the form of the poverty rate and the S80/S20 ratio.The poverty rate is the proportion of the population which earns less than 60 per cent of median income; since this is a measure of relative rather than absolute poverty, it is also referred to as the at-risk-of-poverty ...
EU funds need stronger social conditionality - Social Europe
May 11, 2023 · The rules for allocation of EU funds should be more transparent and provide a meaningful role for the social partners. In May 2022, the European Commission put forward a proposal to update the rules contained in the financial regulation (FR) covering the European Union’s general budget, to bring them into line with the principles governing the seven-year multiannual financial framework (MFF ...
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CEO and Editor-in-Chief. Professor Henning Meyer is CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe. He is also Honorary Professor of Public Policy and Business at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. David Gow. Senior Editorial Adviser.