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  • Call to Europe - Let’s change the mode: The Bulgarian perspective of the fight for income inequality and employment patterns in the EU

    September 02, 2018

    The first public event in the framework of our research project under the same name. There will be a series of events across Bulgaria with a large public debate at the end of the process to bring together our findings.

    With Insitute for Social Integration

    Programme will be available soon

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  • UNited for a different migration

    September 21, 2018

    On 11 July 2018 after lengthy consultations with stakeholders and negotiations among the UN Member States, the text of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was finalised. It will be formally adopted by the UN Member States in Marrakesh, Morocco, next December. For the first time a multilateral international

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  • What’s Left for Labour in Europe?

    September 24, 2018

     

    FEPS annual fringe debate at Labour Party Annual Conference as usual will highlight common progressive challenges and offer solutions. At what looks like it could be the last conference whilst the UK is still in the EU, this debate will look in particular at the future of the UK Labour Party in a changing EU

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  • July 26, 2018

    Can Green Quantitative Easing (QE) Reduce Global Warming?

    The idea of a green QE (quantitative easing) programme has gained a lot of traction over the last years. Our recent research shows that a green QE programme that involves the purchase of green corporate bonds can indeed reduce global warming. Such a programme could be more effective if green investment responds strongly to changes in the interest rates. Yet, green QE cannot by itself prevent severe climate change. This policy brief complements our joint seminar between FEPS and GPERC on Climate Change and Finance held on 23rd May 2018 at the University of Greenwich, London.

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  • Security and Defence: A Glass Half Full

    July 19, 2018
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  • The single safe asset: A Progressive view for a "first best EMU"

    May 24, 2018
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  • FEPS Post Summit Briefing: European Council, 28 June 2018

    July 04, 2018

    By Hedwig Giusto, Lisa Kastner, Vassilis Ntousas, David Rinaldi and Charlotte Billinghan

    At the EU summit in Brussels last week (28 June), leaders discussed a number of pressing issues, including competitiveness and fair taxation, notably of the digital sector, trade and the single market. The most heated debate took place around migration. Brexit was one the agenda too.

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  • The EU and migration: Managing flows, overcoming divisions - Activity report

    July 26, 2018
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  • The Political System and the Exercise of Democracy in Cabo Verde – an African case study

    July 16, 2018
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call to europe

Since its first edition in 2011, Call to Europe has become the signature conference of FEPS and a reference point for the progressive family in Europe. This is due to its capacity of bringing together a unique multi-stakeholder community of progressive politicians, civil society and media to discuss issues of common concern and develop concrete and positive responses to contemporary European challenges in the most interactive and inclusive way.

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fair taxation

Tax justice and fairness should be the backbone of a progressive economic policy. It is estimated that tax fraud, evasion and avoidance all together amount to as much as 1 trillion € each year in Europe. It means a loss of about 2 thousand € per person. That is simply unacceptable.

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FEPS priority topics

1 . The current digital revolution and the European Pillar - Implications for the labour market, education and social protection

2 . Climate change and growth strategy driven by SDGs for all EU regions

3 . New financial solutions for investment and convergence in the EU: MFF, EFSI, EMU reform, Capital Markets Union. The role of tax policy

4 . Managing migration in the EU: internal and external implications

5 . The EU trade policy and the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs

6 . The multipolar world order, the EU and the multilateral system

7 . New instruments to deepen EU democracy and fighting against populism

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Fresh Thinking Blog

A place where Ernst Stetter (Secretary General of FEPS) shares his fresh thoughts about Brussels, Europe and beyond.

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