FEPS Newsletter 19 Dec 2024 – 🎄 FEPS Season’s Greetings and a happy and progressive 2025!

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Dear Friends,

As 2024 ends, we wanted to send you a note of appreciation and holiday cheer from the FEPS team. The end of the year is a time to reflect on what we have accomplished and envision what needs to be done in the years to come.

2024 was a year of many elections, with progressives keeping strength at the European level but overshadowed by further shifts to the hard and far right in both Europe and North America. Such new political constellations appear as an extraordinary challenge of a lifetime for the living generations of progressives.

In 2024, our team worked hard, engaging analysts and activists, to ensure we continue with critical studies, arguments and policies that help facing the current shocks but also prepare a new strategy.

Our outputs should help socialist office holders in EU institutions and beyond driving towards economic prosperity and social cohesion, environmental sustainability, and a higher level of strategic autonomy in the European Union.

We look forward to working with you in 2025 for more powerful progressive influence in a period which hopefully will be one of peace and reconstruction.

Wishing you and yours a warm and quiet holiday season and all the best in the new year!

Maria João Rodrigues, FEPS President
László Andor, FEPS Secretary General

29 JANUARY 2025 – FEPS HQ

Progressive Yearbook launch

Join us at the launch of the sixth edition of one of our most unique publications, the Progressive Yearbook. We will also reveal and interview FEPS Progressive Person of the Year.

With the mission of bringing forward analysis of the key political developments of the year, the Progressive Yearbook focuses on transversal European issues that have left a mark on 2024. It brings insightful future-looking analysis and symbolises FEPS’ readiness to put it into perspective.

Read the latest issue of the Progressive Post magazine!

The new Trump administration is still in the making. A focus on the US electorate’s attitude and concerns, and what this means for the future of the Democrats and the road ahead under the new president, is at the core of this issue’s Special Coverage US elections: more than angry men.

The shift to the right concerns the EU too, with a growing number of EU member states now governed by far-right parties. In our Focus The far right demolishes the welfare state, we look at how the governments of Finland, Hungary and Italy are dismantling labour and social protections, deepening inequalities along the way.

The Dossier The demographic transition: risks and opportunities analyses how promoting inclusive, human-centred and rights-based policies, as well as migration, can play a role in tackling the EU’s demographic imbalances. Another challenge for the EU is corruption – in the Dossier Blunt weapons? Europe’s fight against corruption our authors analyse the efficiency and impact of the EU’s instruments to fight it.

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