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It is time to address the elephant in the room: we are all coming out of a week of extremely draining heat. Those temperatures were not normal, and with another heatwave likely to hit us soon, we need to change things. A global problem requires a global solution. This week, we are taking part in S&D Africa Days, where we will look at climate and tax justice, and work together to identify long-term partnership measures to tackle these global issues.

However, these issues are not isolated – at the heart of this fight is the need to protect social rights around the world. In the last weeks, FEPS defended the EU’s social model in Porto, advanced feminist foreign policy, asked difficult questions about humanity and solidarity, explored the state of Social Democracy, and more. 

🔗 Upcoming events

FEPS’ fringe events in S&D Africa Days

FEPS will organise a series of fringe events as part of the S&D Africa Days:

• 30 June – Live talk show with Dipo Faloyin, a Nigerian-American author and journalist, who will present his debut book📕Africa is not a country.
• 30 June – Online roundtable on “Tax justice and international financial reforms“.
• 1 July – Online roundtable on “Shared responsibility in green industrialisation and climate justice“.

🔗 Past events

Five years after the Porto Social Summit, high-level policymakers and experts – including EC VP Roxana Minzatu – gathered in Porto to put social rights back at the heart of the EU, at a time when the EU’s economic and geopolitical priorities are increasingly focused on competitiveness, deregulation and increased defence spending.

FEPS President Nicolas Schmit, PS Secretary General José Luís Carneiro, MEPs Estelle Ceulemans and Gabriele Bischoff, former EU Commissioner Elisa Ferreira and former Eurogroup President Mário Centeno, were also among the high-level speakers.

By FEPS, in collaboration with Fundação Res Publica, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Portugal, SOLIDAR, the Johannes Mihkelsoni Keskus and Proforum

Members of the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective – led by FEPS, in collaboration with FES EU Office and the strategic partners – met online to build on the outcomes of the 5th FFP Ministerial Conference held in Madrid and prepare inputs for the next EU Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The meeting was co-chaired by Ann Linde and Machris Cabreros.

This book was produced by FEPS, in cooperation with Fundacja Amicus Europae, Fondation Jean-Jaurès, Foundation Max van der Stoel (FMS), Kalevi Sorsa Foundation, Karl-Renner-Institut and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Ukraine.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, which might be the most politically charged tournament in the event’s history, unfolds amidst intensifying geopolitical rivalries, migration disputes, debates over democracy and human rights, and tensions involving participating countries such as Iran, all while being hosted by three North American countries.

• Made – or fade – in Europe? by Greg Van Elsen
• Europe’s industrial future is a political choice by Ludovic Voet
• Is the Industrial Accelerator Act up to the task? by Tommaso Pardi

📚 Read more.

Photo credits: European Union , 2026

When we do not condemn violations of the United Nations Charter, human rights or humanitarian law, regardless of who violates them, Cuba or the United States, we fail to protect the Cuban as well as the American people, and we put all of us, including Europeans, in danger. Because only an international community united against impunity is strong enough to ensure that no state abuses its military and coercive power against another one, and no government abuses it against ordinary citizens. Read more.

Photo credits: Pedro Szekely CC BY-SA 2.0

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