Carlos H. Jerónimo is Assistant Professor and Researcher at ISCTE Business School in Lisbon.| Social Europe
The EU's next budget threatens to slash climate transition funds for military spending. But Europe's gravest security threats already strike inside our borders — killing 62,000 citizens last year alone.| Social Europe
Fifty years after dictatorship, Portugal faces the challenge of rebuilding faith in democratic institutions while delivering on citizens' rising expectations.| Social Europe
Boosting infrastructure spending would stimulate growth and employment without threatening debt sustainability.| Social Europe
The digital transformation of work isn't destroying jobs through automation—it's fundamentally reshaping how work is organised, managed and controlled.| Social Europe
As economic stagnation meets constitutional discord, the remote archipelago faces fundamental questions about its future as a unified nation.| Social Europe
We are witnessing a disturbing evolution in digital capitalism—from harvesting our data to trapping us in fantasies that profit from our isolation.| Social Europe
Bold investment in social innovation is essential if Europe wants to tackle twenty-first-century challenges beyond market and state solutions.| Social Europe
Europe's SME digital divide persists despite EU efforts, with financial constraints and skills shortages hindering transformation.| Social Europe
Manufacturing can't create jobs anymore. Services must step up—with smart policy to boost productivity.| Social Europe
The EU abolished physical borders decades ago, yet digital walls fragment the continent more than ever before.| Social Europe
As wealth concentrates at the top, Europe must act now to defend democracy and economic stability for all.| Social Europe
Our mission is to strengthen democracy by discussing solutions to the most pressing political, economic and social issues of our time.| Social Europe
Carlos Vacas-Soriano is a research manager in the employment unit at Eurofound. He works on wage and income inequalities, minimum wages, low pay, temporary employment and employment quality.| Social Europe
Extreme wealth concentration across the EU undermines opportunity and security for millions while property ownership becomes increasingly unattainable.| Social Europe
A prominent economist's attack on an entire generation ignores economic facts and threatens social cohesion.| Social Europe
Europe must choose: federal union and self-determination, or decline into division and American vassalage.| Social Europe
Addressing Europe’s huge challenges requires treating Europe as more than the sum of its national parts.| Social Europe
Lagging investment in clean technologies poses a greater risk to European jobs than the green transition itself.| Social Europe
As fossil fuel dependency threatens sovereignty, the EU's fragmented response deepens existing inequalities.| Social Europe
Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.| Social Europe
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Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.| Social Europe
Peter Bofinger is professor of economics at Würzburg University and a former member of the German Council of Economic Experts.| Social Europe
Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, and economic growth.| Social Europe
As democracy falters, voters turn to populists. Can innovation save democracy from its outdated frameworks?| Social Europe
Whatever the legal determination, Israel already faces a symbolic reversal in the claim of 'genocide' against it in The Hague.| Social Europe
Coming EU guidance on independent living should not squander the chance to improve the lives of millions of disabled people.| Social Europe