‘An EU social agenda for a geopolitical age’ Flickr album

Photo album of the ‘An EU social agenda for a geopolitical age‘ event in FEPS HQ, Brussels.

Five years after the Porto Social Summit and the adoption of the Action Plan for the European Pillar of Social Rights, the European Union is facing geopolitical challenges. Europe has been challenged by the new US leadership, while the centre-right leadership of EU institutions takes the US model as an inspiration for its economic and social agenda. Competitiveness became a horizontal priority, feeding on a selective reading of the Draghi Report. 

In this context, FEPS hosted an expert roundtable on Friday, 30 January 2025, on how the EU can revive its social model in turbulent times based on a presentation of the upcoming policy brief on “European Sovereignty and the Social Dimension”, co-authored by László Andor (FEPS) and Robin Huguenot-Noël (Freie Universität Berlin). By discussing the diagnosis, identified priorities, and policy proposals of an advanced draft, the event will feed into the finalisation of the publication.