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The European Union has a long track record as a global beacon of peace, prosperity, and success in fields ranging from culture and science to sports. And yet Europe has attracted more global attention in the last two years than it did in the previous six decades, as its debt crisis – exacerbated by a [...]
In crisis times like the one we are living through at the moment, there are typically two aspects that have to be thought through thoroughly. The first is how to stop the progressing rot from the unfolding crisis and the second is how to reconstruct society in a more sustainable fashion so the same crisis [...]
The European Union is in the midst of its deepest economic and financial crisis yet. And apart from the urgent questions about how to stop the immediate crisis, there are also more fundamental issues concerning a sustainable structure for the European economy of the future. The widespread believe – commonly held in the 1990s and [...]
Following the great success of the Good Society Debate, which was led on this website at the end of last year and brought together an unprecedented number of academics, politicians and activists to discuss the future of European social democracy, the organisers (Social Europe Journal, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung London, Soundings Journal and Compass) have decided to continue this [...]
A reflection on the good society debate so far. The good society debate will restart on 11 January, with ten final articles. More than eighty people from across Europe have taken part so far. Thank you to everyone for this successful experiment in collective thinking and discussion. I think it is the first of its [...]
The evidence is there for the social-democratic case. It is time we put it forward properly. It is a truth universally acknowledged that right here, right now, British politics is in a mess. Moats, duckhouses and now a bell-tower … It seems the political class are living on a different planet from the rest of [...]
European social democracy needs a fresh start. In the wake of the most severe economic crisis in decades it became clear that social democrats have not paid enough attention to the development of a real political alternative to the dominant free market orthodoxy. When the demand for an alternative politics was there social democrats had [...]
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