UK referendum: The national vote that is determining European history

With a matter of only days left untill the vote, Europe holds its breath awaiting […]

Policy Brief

20/05/2016

With a matter of only days left untill the vote, Europe holds its breath awaiting the outcome. What is well known is that the race is tight. But what is inconceivable is the day after – regardless of what the outcome may be.

The idea that there is a project that the centre left wants to pursue jointly is also what should be the bridge between now and the 23rd June. The probability of the “Leave” to be victorious in the end seems surrealistic. Hence the cautious optimism the sentiment with which the polls are being read, however much can happen still ahead and after the ballots are casted. What should be the warning is that history has witnessed cases where a close call prompted social unrest, following which the general elections led to a total reshuffling of the partisan systems. That is why the political imagination of the Progressives has to stretch beyond the referendum date, already now looking at how to manage its’ results on both the national and the European level.

Read the policy viewpoint

Find all related publications
Publications
25/01/2023

Progressive Yearbook 2023

Looking back to look ahead
23/10/2022

The progressive potential of the EU

FEPS Primers series - Richard Corbett
04/10/2022

Europe’s social integration

Welfare models and economic transformations
26/09/2022

Transforming the Political Union

Reinforcing europarties ahead of the European elections
Find all related events
Events
Upcoming
08/06/2023
Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid)

What to do about right-wing populism?

Next Left Lecture III
Past
26/01/2023
FEPS HQ, Brussels

Progressive Yearbook launch 2023

Looking back to look ahead
21/01/2023
London, UK (Hybrid)

FEPS-Fabian new year conference 2023

Pathway to power
Find all related news
News
01/12/2022

Progressive MPs and MEPs advocate for the fulfilment of the promise made in Thessaloniki to the Western Balkans

Open letter to the European leaders ahead of the EU - Western Balkans Summit
21/06/2022

Ahead of this week’s European Council, progressive MEPs and MPs urge EU leaders to take resolute actions toward the Western Balkans

On 17 and 18 June, the ‘Friends of the Western Balkans’, the newly established network […]
17/06/2022

First meeting of the Friends of the Western Balkans

How do we get out of the dead end in the enlargement process?
28/01/2022

Roberto Gualtieri is FEPS’ Progressive Person of the Year

FEPS Progressive Person of the Year 2022
Find all related in the media
In the media

‘No one is unemployable’: the French social experiment

by EUobserver 21/03/2023
EUobserver article on unemployment in the EU with a mention to FEPS' policy brief 'A Job Guarantee for Europe.'

Ania Skrzypek ‘Er waait een sociaaldemocratische wind door Europa’

by SAMPOL 09/12/2022
'A social democratic wind is blowing through Europe' Interview with Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training

Tyskland vill slopa vetorätt inom EU

by ETC 29/07/2022

Visioni e strategie per disegnare il futuro europeo 

by La Nazione 23/05/2022