European Society
Re-storing trust in politics and promoting a true European space for debate
The EU faces an increasing number of challenges, and their diversity requires a complex approach. This includes research on bridging the gap between citizens and the EU, understanding social diversity, with specific attention to gender issues and finding legal measures that makes the European integration process more effective for citizens…
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On 18-21 November, Pia Locatelli, President of SI Women and Judit Tánczos, FEPS Policy Advisor were on a study visit in Cairo, meeting local NGOs and party representatives from the left.
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FEPS and the PES Group in the committe of the Regions are organising a series of lunch debates with an invited audience in Brussels, bringing together political experience and outside expertise to challenge existing perceptions and open up to new ideas. The latest debate, on Thursday 10 November,...
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After the meetings in Boston and Paris, the third transatlantic seminar on gender issues was given the title « Re-strengthening global sisterhood - Emerging women’s issues for a new global agenda”. The event was organised on 20-21 October in Washington D.C. with the support of the Fondation ...
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Besides research and seminars, two fact-finding missions are also included in the Copenhagen revisited project. The first fact-finding took place in Kosovo on 19-22 September 2011. A small team of representatives from FEPS and the European Forum met politicians from local and national level, ...
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Wed. 7th September saw the kickoff, in Brussels, of the Copenhagen Revisited Project by FEPS and the European Forum, with the support of the Dutch foundations Wiardi Beckman Stichting and Alfred Mozer Stichting.
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The Foundation for European Progressive Studies wishes to express solidarity and sympathy with the people of Norway after the tragedy on 22 July when a fra-right sympathiser murdered 69 young social democratic activists on the Norwegian island of Utoya.
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A survey done for the “Call to Europe” conference organized in Brussels by FEPS on 29 and 30 June shows that almost one in two European civil servants think that European integration is evolving negatively and nearly 90% of them are of the opinion that the political authorities ...
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May 2011 | "While JM Barroso should immediately have put out the fire started by the two most active European pyromaniacs of the day, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the Commission is stoking the flames by indirectly admitting himself that 20,000 Tunisian immigrants ...
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This debate, held in Brussels on Tuesday 26th April was moderated by Mark Rogerson, former BBC correspondent, who focused on competitiveness and convergence, two keywords in the latest cohesion report.
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The Hungarian media law symbolizes the need for the European Union to assume its responsibilities to defend media freedom. Interpretations of this law diverge, however. In Hungary, it is seen as the straw that broke the camel’s back, coming on top of a series of laws ...
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