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SEJ has been growing considerably over recent months and our writing is now gaining real global traction, far beyond the borders of Europe. Over the past thirty days we had 145.755 unique visitors from all over the world on our website and we have also been doing well in rankings. According to the leader in [...]
The latest issue of Social Europe Journal (Vol. 6 Issue 1) is hot off the press and as always we are making the pdf version available for free download. The current issue deals with the concepts of justice and equality in the Good Society and includes contributions by Thomas Pogge, Gesine Schwan, Colin Crouch, Henning [...]
For the last weeks SEJ has been using Cloudflare, a brilliant service that prevents bad traffic from reaching our server and speeds the site up at the same time (through a system similar to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)). Cloudflare also provides web statistics that are based on requests rather than Java Script and should therefore [...]
Over the next weeks starting today, Social Europe Journal will run an online debate on the concepts of ‘equality’ and ‘justice’ and what they mean in our societies. Together with two European think tanks, the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Swedish Arbetarrörelsens Tankesmedja, we will publish about 20 contributions by well-known as well as [...]
Dear readers, the Social Europe Journal team would like to thank you for your support in 2010. It has been our best year so far! We added a lot more high profile authors and as a result rapidly increased our readership. Thanks to Paul Krugman, who linked to our survey result yesterday, December 2010 will see [...]
A banner unfurled on the Leaning Tower of Pisa reads No alla riforma (of education). Portugal virtually comes to a halt as a result of a general strike that has united the bitterly divided union movement against austerity measures. British students trash the headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party in protest at budget cuts. In [...]
The welfare state in Europe is under attack – and what’s the news? In the past decades, we have seen both the gradual erosion of the welfare state’s financial basis as well as fundamental structural reforms that got to the core of welfare provision. This transformation has been accompanied by an intense debate about the [...]
First of all thanks to everyone who voted in our ballot to establish for the first time what the most influential left-of-centre European blogs are. We wanted to avoid a SEJ bias as far as possible and therefore notified all nominees and asked them to campaign for themselves. And here are the results: 1. Social [...]
The new Social Europe Journal Vol. 5 Issue 1 is now available as pdf download for those of you who prefer a pdf version to reading individual articles on this website. The new journal includes contributions by Norman Birnbaum, Klaus Busch, Milos Pick, Vera Glassner, Andrew Watt, Uwe Fink, Nick Crook, Karolina Stegemann, Udo Rehfeldt, [...]
The latest Issue of Social Europe Journal is out now and includes contributions by: Phillipe Pochet (European Trade Union Institute), Mercedes Bresso (Socialist Group in the Committee of the Regions), David Held (London School of Economics and Political Science), Gero Maass et. al. (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), Karin Roth (German MP), Sebastian Dullien et. al. (Friedrich [...]
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