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Policy brief series on the state of democracy under the current EU Commission Application Deadline: Submissions are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Start Date: to be agreed Duration: Writing period 1-2 months Revisions/copy-editing: 1-2 months Publication: starting December 2025 Eligibility: Scholars, policy experts, and political practitioners with expertise in, respectively, 1. EU institutions, democratic design or 2. ...
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About us The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, a nationally and internationally active German political foundation, is committed to the thoughts and actions of its namesake, the socialist Rosa Luxemburg: We are committed to peace, democracy, social justice and democratic socialism. The project The Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is looking for an author for a short study on EU policy proposals for nature credits and the risks they pose. The European Commission’s nature credits and biodiversity certification ...
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A group photo of the heads of government at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, June 16, 2025.
IMAGO/Frank Ossenbrink
It should not be forgotten that situations of upheaval always also offer opportunities for left-wing movements...For the European Left, the important thing is not to lose sight of the end goal.
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Stockholm, 15 April 1992, Minister for Europe and Foreign Trade Ulf Dinkelspiel, Prime Minister Carl Bildt and European Commission President Jacques Delors
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30 years of Swedish EU-membership: From socialist outsider to frugal stalwart As Sweden marks 30 years of European Union (EU) membership this year, a perplexing image emerges: a country which for large parts of the 20th century resisted membership in the Common Market is now one of the most pro-EU on the continent (a record 68 percent of the population supported membership in 2023, rising continuously since 2001).[1] At the same time, the implications of this membership are almost never discussed: the European ...
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Anthropologist Jason Hickel.
Anthropologist Jason Hickel.
Jason Hickel

Reorganizing Production to Serve Life, Not Profit

Jason Hickel, Don Kalb, Maria Dyveke Styve, Federico Tomasone
Jason Hickel on ecology, capitalism, and socialist strategy in the twenty-first century On 15 May 2025, economic anthropologist, degrowth theorist, and author of popular works such as Less is More Jason Hickel delivered a provocative lectio magistralis as part of the Third Annual GRIP Lecture at the University of Bergen, sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Brussels Office. In his presentation on “The Struggle for Development in the Twenty-First Century”, Hickel dismantled the idea that the development of the Global South can take ...
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A global call to divest from harm and invest in care through a 10% cut in military spending Join us for the official launch event of the 10% for All campaign, a powerful global initiative calling for a minimum 10% reduction in military spending by all countries—and a redirection of those funds towards life-affirming priorities that build true human security. Date: May 23, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 PM CEST Location: Zoom Webinar – Register here. This public webinar will bring together expert voices from our campaign partners to explore the ...
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The Minister of Labor Yolanda Diaz and former MEP Manu Pineda attend the EU campaign of the Sumar coalition, May 23, 2024, Madrid.
IMAGO/ZUMA Press Wire
The EU elections in Spain saw a narrow victory for the centrist People's Party, which beat the Socialist Party by two seats. The clear victory goes to the political tradition of the bipartitism, with the two major parties winning a total of 64.37% of the vote. The far-right party VOX received 9.62%, comparable to its Portuguese counterpart CHEGA, which achieved 9.79%, but a far cry from the 15.60% of the Alternative for Germany, the 28.59% of the Fratelli d'Italia and the 31.36% of the Rassemblement National.
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Impact of Austerity Measures on Women in Croatia

Marija Ćaćić, Dora Levačić
Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in Croatia When we first started to look at various data, we found that both men and women in Croatia suffered grave consequences of the recent economic crisis. Only when we turned our eye to the devastation that happened during the 1990s and in the early 2000s did it became possible to see the different effects of cuts to social services and privatisation processes on women as a group. In a way, for Croatia the impact of austerity measures, since it declared its independence, can be ...
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Global Gas Lock-in. Bridge to nowhere

Alfons Pérez
Fossil gas is gaining ground and increasing in importance in the global energy scenario. There are numerous publications and studies evaluating the risk of fuels such as crude oil and coal, but in the case of gas it is more difficult to find critical analyses of the risks involved in its promotion. This booklet intends to show the various dimensions and risks associated with the global and European push for gas. It examines its geopolitical, economic, financial, environmental, climatic and social aspects; it analyses the role of historical development, ...
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