If you have problems displaying this email, follow this link

From Brussels to Croatia, France and Portugal, FEPS has been on the move across Europe in recent weeks: we called for a gender agenda for a clean industrial transition, mapped transnational far-right networks, tackled pressing questions around occupational safety and health at work and explored local progressive solutions to the housing crisis. 

Discover the key highlights and upcoming events below!

Upcoming events

See full schedule

📅  23 FEBRUARY

💻 ONLINE

Ukraine Solidarity Day
Securing EU’s long-term support for Ukraine 

While there are feeble signs of possible negotiations, the past months have also brought some of the most brutal Russian attacks on Kyiv and other cities.

In this moment of profound uncertainty and with the 4th anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion approaching, how can Europe reaffirm its support for Ukraine’s struggle? Register now!

📅  19 MARCH

📍 FEPS HQ

Place-based industrial policy in Europe

This event will discuss how regional and local political processes determine the shape of industrial policy and how social democrats can better develop, implement and manage the politics of industrial policy in critical sectors and regions. 

It will also the occasion to launch our upcoming policy study “Place-based industrial policy in Europe”. Register here.

Past events

See all past events

• Women representation in clean industries and policy options for better integration
• Strengthening gender perspectives in clean industry: arguments and narratives
• State of the EU clean industrial policies and upcoming files from a gender perspective
• Mapping concrete opportunities in the EU clean industry policy agenda

Building on the first roundtable in December 2025 and continuing into a series of strategic meetings in 2026, this second meeting focuses on mapping key transnational actors, coordination spaces and digital ecosystems that underpin far-right mobilisation.

Spain trains them, Europe hires them: the map of the new brain drain

An article published in El Confidencial

László Andor, FEPS Secretary General, discusses the ‘brain drain’ as a result of the EU’s single market and highlights the need for a fairer mobility and retention strategy across the EU. The article is also available in english. 

Photo credits: Shutterstock / Na_Studio

FEPS in Lille for its Away Days

The FEPS Team spent two days in Lille for its Away Days, immersing in the housing policy and exploring local progressive solutions.

FEPS was welcomed by leading socialist representatives in Lille to discuss the successes and challenges of policies and programmes they introduced in the city.

• Ensuring tax justice in a fragile and unequal world economy by Tommaso Faccio and Jayati Ghosh
• The elephant in the European room by Simona Iammarino

📚 Read more.

Europe’s competitiveness debate is accelerating under a growing sense of urgency. The conservative right and employers’ organisations present deregulation as the solution, as if Europe’s future could be secured by cutting back protections rather than by building long-term capacity.

For progressives, this moment demands not only resistance to bad ideas, but the responsibility to put forward a credible alternative. Read more.

Photo credits: European Union 2025

Increasingly, Europe’s economy is portrayed as incompatible with competitiveness. This framing confuses institutional constraint with economic weakness and risks eroding the foundations of Europe’s prosperity and social cohesion. Read more.

Photo credits: Shutterstock / wjarek

Was this email forwarded to you?

Copyright © 2026 FEPS Europe, All rights reserved.

You are receiving this email because you participated in one of FEPS’ events and/or have registered for FEPS’ newsletter.

If you wish not to receive FEPS’ communications anymore, please click here: unsubscribe now

Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Avenue des Arts, 46 – 1000 Bruxelles

+32 223 46 900 – info@feps-europe.eu