Maria João RODRIGUES

FEPS President

Since 2017, Maria João Rodrigues is the President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), the only progressive think tank at the European level, formed by forty national member foundations across Europe.

Maria João Rodrigues former Portuguese minister of Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, is a European politician with a long track in all European institutions: EU Presidencies, Council, European Council, European Commission and, more recently, European Parliament. She played a relevant role is several big European initiatives: the EU growth and jobs strategy, the Lisbon Treaty, the Eurozone reform, the European Social Pillar, the interface with EU external strategic partners and the Roadmap for EU’s future.

Recently, she was Vice-President of S&D Group in the European Parliament, a parliamentary group with 189 members from all Member States, where she was in charge of the coordination of the parliamentary work and the inter-institutional negotiation on the EU agenda.

As an academic, she is full professor and was the Chair of the European Commission Board for socio-economic research. She has around one hundred publications and as expert and politician, has done more than two thousands conferences across Europe and the world.

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Publications
24/01/2024

Progressive Yearbook 2024

Looking back to look ahead
13/11/2023

EU Treaties – Why they need targeted changes

An approach based on European public goods, citizenship and democracy
25/01/2023

Progressive Yearbook 2023

Looking back to look ahead
20/01/2023

Global Policy Dialogue

Addressing the triple planetary crisis through improved global governance
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04/01/2024

Jacques Delors and a new European impulse

14/11/2023

Europe in times of wars

07/06/2023

The West in the minority or the reform of global governance

04/01/2023

A war of the 20th century and challenges of the 21st one

28/06/2022

Enlarging, deepening, re-positioning – the European equation ahead

By granting candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova and by recommitting to the EU membership of the Western Balkans, the European Union opened a new phase of its enlargement which will redesign the European political map again. It was undoubtedly the right decision to assert European sovereignty and also to welcome an embattled country which is showing with bravery that it belongs to the European future and not to a war of the past. A war of the past in Europe because it combines the clash of empires of WW I with the clash of political regimes of WW II. The future in Europe is being created by the values of freedom, equality, solidarity, democracy and sustainability and by a process of European integration which involves enlargement but also deepening. Deepening is a pre-condition for successful enlargement. But as enlargement has now become a political and moral imperative, the issue today is not about choosing between one or another. It is rather about how to make both with a new approach.
09/03/2022

The implications of the war in Ukraine for the European project

03/03/2022

The EU should rise to rescue a European democratic nation from foreign tyranny

02/02/2022

Socialist Party wins absolute majority in Portugal: how was this possible?

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Events
30/04/2024
FEPS HQ

Call to Social Europe

The future is social
01/03/2024
Rome, Italy

Understanding right-wing populism and what to do about it

PES Congress fringe event
24/01/2024
FEPS HQ

Progressive Yearbook launch

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04/03/2024

FEPS at the PES Election Congress in Rome

23/02/2024

FEPS mission to Brazil

18/01/2024

FEPS President at Euronews talk-show ‘Brussels, my love?’

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FEPS President on Euronews talk-show ‘Brussels, my love?’

by Euronews 16/03/2024
FEPS President Maria João Rodrigues discusses NATO expansions and elections in Russia and Portugal on Euronews talk-show ‘Brussels, my love?‘

FEPS President at Euronews talk-show ‘Brussels, my love?’

by Euronews 15/01/2024
Panellists discussed topics including EU fiscal rules reform, German farmer's protests, and the decision of Charles Michel to quit his job early to run for MEP.

Jacques Delors e um novo impulso europeu

by Público 08/01/2024
'Jacques Delors and a new European impulse' Article for Público by FEPS President Maria João Rodrigues about Jacques Delors' legacy and the future of Europe

Um conclave pelo futuro da Europa

by Diario de Noticias 27/11/2023
Maria João Rodrigues participated in the 'Conclave' on the future of Europe. A transdisciplinary forum that discussed the essential questions to be asked and the answers to be given to European leaders.

Une réforme de l’UE qui intéressera forcément les Suisses

by Le Temps 24/11/2023
'EU reform bound to be of interest to the Swiss', an opinion piece in Le Temps on EU Treaties changes by Maria João Rodrigues, FEPS President, Guillaume Klossa, Director of think tank EuropaNova and Daniela Schwarzer, Executive board member Bertelsmann Stiftung
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‘Understanding right-wing populism and what to do about it’ fringe event and PES Congress Flickr album

Shaping Europe’s digital model Flickr album

‘Transforming capitalism in the Age of AI’ Flickr album

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