BOOK LAUNCH – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

📕 A new Gender Equality Contract for Europe

Feminism and progressive politics

We’ve talked a lot about the gender backlash, but…how can we actually build positive narratives for gender equality? 

As part of Gender Equality Week, FEMM Chair and FEPS VP Lina Gálvez Muñoz hosted the launch at the European Parliament of our new book ‘A New Gender Equality Contract for Europe‘. The book argues why gender equality should become a unifying force towards more egalitarian, solidaristic and caring societies.

Featuring gender experts from diverse disciplines, the book connects feminist academic intelligence with hands-on policymaking.

The topics include education, reproductive health, labour, care, cultural rights, democracy, climate, and Feminist Foreign Policy.

It is crucial to shift away from the gender backlash and to create a new Gender Equality Contract for Europe that policymakers can unite around!

POLICY BRIEF SERIES 

🗂️ Feminist Foreign Policy

By FEPS and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office

Although adopted in several EU Members, the EU still needs a more ambitious approach to FFP. This is why the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective, a global network of feminist experts by FEPS and FES, have developed a policy brief series with actionable policy recommendations on topics such as security and defence, funding, Latin America and the EU, foresight, etc. 

To push for Feminist Foreign Policy on the agenda of the EU political cycle, the series has been presented to top EU policymakers, such as Hadja Lahbib, Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management; Irene Fellin, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security; Julia Koch-de Biolley, EEAS Head of the Task Force on Gender Equality, and MEPs Chloé Ridel, Hana Jalloul and Evin Icir.

⏱️ For those short on time, all recommendations from the FFPPVC policy briefs are synthesised into a single comprehensive document.

11 DEC – STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Algorithmic governance and the Swedish model 

Impact of algorithmic management on workers and co-determination opportunities

Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, joined us for this critical discussion with trade unions on the role that organised labour and progressive policymakers have to play to implement Algorithmic Management in an effective and worker-friendly way. 

29 NOV – ATHENS, GREECE

Housing as an investment in Greece and Southern Europe

Private profit vs social value

Can housing be treated as a profit-making investment asset in the “free” market and a human right protected by social policies within the same political agenda? 

During this event, we presented our upcoming policy study on Greece’s housing crisis, which offers comparative insights from Southern Europe and proposes recommendations for a more inclusive and resilient housing system.

📅  12 DECEMBER

📍 FEPS HQ

From posts to polls

Lessons from the 2024 European Elections on strengthening young people’s engagement through effective social media strategies

How did political parties engage young voters on social media during the 2024 European Elections? Which strategies worked, and which fell short? This event will present findings from our upcoming study analysing young people’s voting behaviours and preferences alongside parties’ social media efforts. Register here.

📅  29 JANUARY 2025

📍 FEPS HQ

Progressive Yearbook launch

Join us at the launch of the sixth edition the Progressive Yearbook, which focuses on transversal European issues that have left a mark on 2024 and brings insightful future-looking analysis.

We will also reveal and interview FEPS Progressive Person of the Year. Find out more. 

FEPS President at the 2024 Understanding China Conference, in China

FEPS President Maria João Rodrigues participated in the 2024 Understanding China Conference, which was held in Guangzhou (China) by the China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS).

Photo credits: Shutterstock / Pixel-Shot

EUROPEAN PROGRESSIVE OBSERVATORY

The telling end of the super-electoral year

The super-electoral 2024 ends with elections in Ireland and Romania. Results apparently indicating continuity hide a more complex situation, as the annulment of the presidential elections in Romania shows.