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04/02/2020

Progressive Yearbook is FEPS newest initiative. Taking stock of last year’s events and developments, it will help highlight the most important achievements, as well as the lessons, of 2019. But our Progressive Yearbook is also, and above all, about the future. It is an opportunity to stop for a moment and look forward, set priorities, and put on paper some of the expectations and plans against which future developments will have to be tested.

As the leading progressive think tank in Europe, FEPS wants to showcase by its Yearbook its strong network in gathering political leaders, activists and academic experts from our political family, as well as collect critical data and deliver sharp analysis along with concrete proposals.

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Find here the different chapters!

LOOKING BACK

2019 European Chronology

Eppur si muove… How the European Elections bceame a turning point against all odds by Ania Skrzypek

PROGRESS IN EUROPE

Five years with Juncker by Giacomo Benedetto

Erosion, volatility, and alliances. Perspectives for social democracy after the European Elections by László Andor

Future(s) of Europe by Maria João Rodrigues

Progressive Person of the Year: Interview with Frans Timmermans by László Andor

BIG ISSUES

Let’s not burn our future by Mary Robinson

Digital Union: what happened so far? What should progressives aim at next? by Paul Tang and Justin Nogarede

Gender Equality: what is the legacy of the last EU mandate and what should we aim for in the year of the Beijing+25 jubilee? by Agnès Hubert

Desecuritise migration to liberalise it by Giacomo Orsini

NATIONAL FOCUS

Brexit Britain 2020: Johnson triumphant, Labour in meltdown, where next? by Roger Liddle

Italian Politics: The great escape by Eleonora Poli

PREDICTIONS 2020

MOVING FORWARD 

2020: A Progressive restart for the European Union by Iratxe García Pérez

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