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EU Forward

Shaping European Politics & Policy in the second half of the 2020s

Social Europe & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

2025

Contents13 chapters
  1. Copyright
  2. Introduction
  3. Europe’s Challenge in a New Era of Shift and Shock
  4. Can Europe overcome the radical right to forge a new path?
  5. Populists Are Taking Over—Here’s Why Democracy Is Failing
  6. Industrial Policy: Key to Europe’s Role in a Shifting World Order
  7. How to break Europe’s Innovation Stasis
  8. Europe’s education gamble: Can the EU compete in a Changing World?
  9. How Europe’s fiscal rules are strangling growth
  10. The Vanishing Act of Social Europe: Will it rise again?
  11. The Capacity to ‘Compete’—Rethinking the Welfare State
  12. A Changing Europe: Strategic Autonomy and Security in 2025 and Beyond
  13. About the Authors