Welcome to FES London
On this website, you will find broad information about the FES in general, and about our office in London in particular. We keep you up to date about our events and publications on topics of current political debates and decisions in the UK, Germany and the EU. Note that you can download all our publications for free.
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New book 'The Future of European Social Democracy: Building the Good Society' - out now!
Across Europe social democracy is in crisis. The countries which form its collective home, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and France, are all currently governed by centre right parties. It seems that change to European social democracy is essential. The contributors to this volume look at what kind of change this might be.
In the last decade European social democracy has ceased to be about either society or democracy. In government it has embraced liberal economic principles that undermined solidarity and association. Along the way the idea of the common good has been lost and there is no vision of a 'Good Society'. The authors explore the values of European social democracy, how it can be revived and what kind of political economy it requires in order to thrive. An international group of distinguished academics addresses these issues and looks at how European social democracy can be used to build the Good Society.
To order a copy of this book, please go to Palgrave Macmillan's website.
Following the great success of the Good Society project, which has brought together an unprecedented number of academics, politicians and activists to discuss the future of European social democracy, the organisers (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Social Europe Journal and Compass) continue this vital discourse.
On 2nd December we held a conference on sustainability, which discussed pressing questions, such as how to match the need for growth with the need for sustainability, how to achieve economic justice in a resource-constrained world, and how to mobilise the finance needed for the transition to a green economy.
Prior to the conference, we ran an online debate at www.social-europe.eu.