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• Social Europe Facebook Group

  Published: August 11, 2007, 6:53 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Blog, Facebook, Politics, Progressive, Social

  created Facebook group of Social Europe Journal. The group is intended to bring together social democrats and progressives from around the world not just Europe! - to discuss and disseminate fresh thinking and ideas. Politics must become truly global so the build-up of a world-wide network is a prerequisite for progressive exchange. You

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• Inequality has run Amok. Do Leaders Care?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:59 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Clinton, Inequality, News, Obama, Politics

  would be a fix to Social Security’s dirty little secret of favoring the rich: Annual wage income above $94,200 is completely untaxed by Social Security. While an average worker pays 6.2% of her income to Social Security, a CEO earning $1 million pays only 1% of his salary. As is, only 83% of all wages are subject to Social

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• The Turkish Elections 2007: A Dilemma

  Published: July 13, 2007, 7:43 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Election, Turkey

  By Dimitris Tsarouhas In less than two weeks from now, the Turkish people will elect a new Parliament and government. The elections’ outcome is bound to have significant repercussions on a number of fronts, not least Turkey’s EU vocation. On the other hand, predictions about the possible outcome are almost impossible: opinion polls

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• Keeping Up With the Putins

  Published: September 16, 2007, 4:50 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Eu Russia, News, Politics, Putin, Russia

  By Chris Dalby Walking through the streets of Moscow, an eerie feeling soon grips the observant spectator. A sentiment of contained anger and subdued power that threatens to burst out after being quelled for too long. The ebb and flow of Russian influence has been a constant of world politics for centuries with the heights of Catherine the Great

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• Greek Elections IV: A New Political Landscape

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:17 am

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  the abandonment of a ’social opposition’ to the small left parties (’left faction’) all the way to a ‘not-bold-enough-change’ following the 2004 defeat (’right faction’). What is largely absent from these debates is the bigger picture. Greek social democracy has been on the political defensive

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• Taking Stock of the Union's Foreign and Security Policy

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:41 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, European Union, Foreign Policy, Politics, Solana

  Earlier this year, the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday. In these 50 years, Europe has been transformed. A continent plagued by wars and confrontations has developed into a community of peace, democracy and prosperity. We have stopped killing each other and started to work together. This did not happen by itself. We built strong

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• Making Participatory Democracy Work!

  Published: October 7, 2007, 6:07 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  has been brought into the European political arena. It gives those European citizens who complain about the ‘democratic deficit in Europe’ a means of directly making their voices heard. This innovation goes hand in hand with the efforts to clarify the distribution of competences and to simplify legal instruments, whose ultimate

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• New Social Europe Journal European Foreign Policy

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:58 am

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Foreign Policy, Pes, Foreign Policy, Miliband, News, Politics, Solana

  Summer/Autumn issue of Social Europe Journal is now available for free download (just click here or the picture). This latest issue focuses on European Foreign Policy and contains contributions by the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Javier Solana, Professor David Held from the London

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• Guardian America

  Published: October 24, 2007, 8:22 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  Some of our readers might be interested to learn that the British Guardian newspaper has started an American version (at least online) called “Guardian America“. The editor is Michael Tomasky and you can read here what he has got to say about the launch.

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  Published: November 23, 2007, 8:59 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

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• Why no Christmas Presents for Children in Iraq and Afghanistan?

  Published: December 3, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Afghanistan, Children, Christmas, Iraq

  As Christmas approaches, the annual collection of presents gets on the way too. I have come across a few web-based initiatives set up to collect and ship Christmas presents to troops serving overseas, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whereas these collections are undoubtedly noble causes even if you disagree with the underlying foreign

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• After the Attack

  Published: December 5, 2007, 3:28 am

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  His main interests are the European Union and general political questions, especially in France, the UK and

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• Festive Wish-list to bring the European Left a Happy 2008

  Published: December 19, 2007, 5:46 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  site devoted to the left in Europe to be asking. But recent years have seen many changes to the traditional ideas around socialism and social democracy. We need clarity. For example, the Third Way a balance between market and interventionist philosophies, see Professor Lord Giddens post earlier in the blog - has led to a pragmatic form of

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• Remember the US Election Campaign of 2004?

  Published: December 19, 2007, 7:10 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog

  approval ratings in Europe yesterday, I remembered the 2004 Bush-Kerry campaign and one of the funniest political parodies I have ever seen. Do you remember the JibJab video “This Land”? If you don’t remember or have never heard of it here it is. It’s great fun! This Land! Funny Jokes at JibJab

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• New Social Europe Journal The Future of Transatlantic Relations

  Published: December 20, 2007, 7:10 pm

  Tags: Social Europe Blog, Politics, Robert Reich, Social Europe, Transatlantic Relations, Verheugen

  the latest issue of our Social Europe Journal focussing on the future of transatlantic relations. Our latest publication brings together contributions by Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, EU Commission Vice-President G nter Verheugen, Steven Hill from the New America Foundation in Washington and the renowned

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