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What a week! Among many other activities, FEPS has been part of the two-day S&D Youth Event that has gathered around 500 young Europeans from across the EU. We organised two workshops on tax justice and the far-right, filled with inspiring debates and ideas. The young participants worked with experts from academia, politics and civil society and crafted a two-minute message that was presented to European leaders at the European Parliament Hemicycle. Thank you to all participants for their contributions, engagement, energy and powerful message of hope! 

We also partnered up with the UN and FES to get ready ahead of the UN Summit of the Future, we travelled to Kosovo to continue our work on enlargement, to Berlin for the Day of the Progressive Economic Policy, and we heard about predictions ahead of the EU elections.

In the EU, the richest 1% own 47% of financial wealth and keep becoming richer.A Wealth Tax of up to 5% on Europe’s multimillionaires and billionaires could bring 286.5 billion € each year!

With this, we ensure social and climate justice in a society in which the difference between the ultra-rich and the rest of the society is increasing!

This pivotal question was at the heart of this workshop in which we discussed the reasons and the strategy to ‘Tax the Rich‘. Sign the petition to support this European Citizen’s Initiative advocating for a wealth tax to fund essential ecological and social transitions!

If you still doubt the feasibility of a wealth tax, our policy study ‘A European wealth tax’ will prove you wrong. Check out FEPS’ work on tax justice!

Despite the threat they pose to democracy, far-right parties are gaining ground in Europe.

In this workshop, participants learned more about this threat and possible strategies to counter it. We notably presented the findings of our policy brief ‘The transformation of the mainstream right in Western Europe‘, shedding light on a crucial aspect: it’s not solely the far-right that undermines democracy, but also certain centre-right parties forming alliances with them, allowing them to enter into governments and legitimising their rhetoric and hate speech. Join us on 18 April for an in-depth analysis of the findings of this publication.

Ahead of the UN Summit of the Future, that will take place in New York in September, this event gathered policymakers, experts, civil society, youth and a diverse range of participants, including Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary-General for Policy at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen.

We reflected on the key findings of the upcoming FEPS book ‘For a New Global Deal. Preparing the Summit of the Future’, prepared by a high-level group of experts.

In this Lecture, Simon Hix, Professor at the European Union Institute, offered some very important insights into the situation that the Progressives find themselves in ahead of the elections, as also some predictions as to what may happen after June 2024. 

The Next Left Lectures form an integral part of the Next Left Research Programme, established in 2009 with the ambition to contribute to progressive thinking and propose innovative paths.

As an event partner, FEPS ran the panel ‘Economic democracy to foster regional transformation’, with Dr. Andrew Cumbers, lead researcher at the FEPS project ‘Economic Democracy’.

The current economic system has concentrated power in the hands of the few and created record inequality. The current economic model is not working for people and the planet. A new paradigm must be created. But the incumbent economic power holders are not going to be the drivers of change. Transformation of the economy requires a democratic process that would build up the power of social stakeholders and citizens at large. In this panel, we explored the local/regional dimension of this transformation. 

The network Friends of the Western Balkans (FoWB) gathered for its fifth meeting to discuss the interplay between the upcoming European elections and the process of enlargement and to reflect on labour migration – the so-called ‘brain drain’ – that affects the Western Balkans and whose long-term consequences may also be observed in the democratic institutions and processes.

FEPS President Maria João Rodrigues discussed NATO expansion, European defence and the elections in Russia and Portugal on Euronews’ talk show ‘Brussels, my love?‘ Watch the segment here.

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