FEPS Newsletter 9 Sept 2024 – 📅 Ready for the new cycle!

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09/09/2024
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Welcome to the first newsletter after the summer break! We hope you’ve had a chance to recharge, because we’re kicking off September with full momentum! We’re diving into Europe’s most pressing challenges—and we’ve already hit the ground running! 🏃‍♀️

 

Migration, the new EU agenda, the UN Summit of the Future, Social Europe, digital, gender equality and much more! Stay tuned as we navigate these challenges together.

Events

Upcoming events

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Progressive Migration Group
 

📅  10 SEPTEMBER

📍  FEPS HQ

Progressive Migration Group conference

Migration is once again at the top of the news and political agenda, yet the conversation often falls into simplistic narratives and proposals that only deepen existing challenges. Join us on 10 September for an honest and trustworthy discussion on migration – now more necessary than ever. Register here. 

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Register for the Siena Conference
 

📅  12 – 15 SEPTEMBER

📍  SIENA, ITALY

Siena vision conference on the Europe of the future – 2024

Under the motto ‘Agenda Setting for a Union at a Crossroad‘, around 80 intellectuals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, managers, journalists, economists and students will gather in Siena to join a more informal conversation on the European future and its most recent challenges. More info. 

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How do algorithms and AI reshape workplaces and the world?
 

📅  17 SEPTEMBER

📍  HELSINKI, FINLAND

🖥️  HYBRID

How do algorithms and AI reshape workplaces and the world?

This conference will explore the survey Digital Programme’s “Computer in Command” which involved over 6,000 union members across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland to examine the impact of Algorithmic Management. Join authors, experts, trade unionists, and policymakers in debating its findings. Follow it live (in EN).

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FEPS at the United Nations Summit of the Future
 

📅  19-23 SEPTEMBER

📍  NEW YORK, USA

FEPS at the United Nations Summit of the Future

Together with various international partners, FEPS is co-organising an official side event on the occasion of the United Nations Summit of the Future Action Days in New York. It will include experts from the T20 process to the G20 and FEPS to discuss policy recommendations for global governance reform. FEPS book ‘A New Global Deal‘ will also be launched in NY. Find out more.

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Past events

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2 SEPT – REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY

Advancing child and family care

In collaboration with PES CoR and Partito Democratico

 

Extensive evidence shows that disparities in life opportunities emerge early in life, but early care and education can break the cycle of disadvantage! 

 

Progressives in Europe have made significant strides in child policy, but there is still much to do to ensure quality early education and care for all. That’s why FEPS co-organised a citizens’ dialogue at the Festa Nazionale dell’Unità – to resist right-wing efforts to dismantle welfare systems.

Advancing child and family care
The social dimension of enlargement

31 AUGUST – KORČULA, CROATIA

The social dimension of enlargement

In collaboration with Foundation Max van der Stoel

 

On the occasion of the Korčula School 2024 organised by CEE Gender Network, FEPS co-hosted the workshop “The social dimension of enlargement”. We discussed how to ensure that the enlargement process results in strengthened social rights and protection, inclusive labour markets and economic growth, and the empowerment of the Western Balkan citizens, in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Podcast

FEPS TALKS PODCAST

Financing the green and social agenda

With Matthias Kollatz and László Andor

 

🎧 Spotify | Apple Podcast | Website 

Listen to the podcast 'Financing the green and social agenda'

Matthias Kollatz has an extensive background in public finance, having served as Vice-President of the EIB in Luxembourg and as Berlin’s Financial Senator. In this episode, he discusses the transformative impact of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the crucial role that promotional banks have assumed in the post-crisis economic model.

News
FEPS Digital Programme in the news!
 

FEPS Digital Programme

in the news!

 

The Finnish case study of the “Computer in Command” study, which analyses the implementation of algorithmic systems in management in Finland, has been featured in the Finnish national TV news programme Ylen Aamu! Watch the news segment or read the article!

FEPS in the news!
 

Summer doesn’t mean slumber!

 

Explore our recent media appearances:

  • László Andor, FEPS Secretary General, discusses the UK elections with POLITICO, reflects on the Eastern enlargement of the 1990s for BBC History, and talks about Viktor Orbán’s rise alongside shifting power dynamics in the EP with Encompass.
  • David Rinaldi, FEPS Director of Studies and Policy, addresses the housing crisis in Euronews.
  • Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, comments on Piotr Serafin’s nomination as EU Commissioner in Radio TOK FM.

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