1 day ago - Progressivism is a left-leaning political philosophy that seeks to make progress in the human condition through reforms aimed at maximising positive liberty. Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of ...

January 9, 2022 - While in the post-war period the US led the world’s democracies, during the last generation a European model has emerged from common values that provides a progressive alternative to the American way of life. Without distortions of gerrymandering and corporate financing, elections are more democratic on the continent, since coalitions inhibit polarisation.

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December 3, 2018 - The traditional way and hence the way in which political parties are organised is no longer responding to the new challenges of activism, participation and need for a different kind of relationship when it comes to representation. It is evident, when one reads the studies such as FEPS Millennial Dialogue. Following the ideas of the 1990s, Progressive parties transformed into professionally-managed campaigning clubs.

November 20, 2025 - There is a real chance that instead citizens will confide in those, such as the Spanish, Czech and Danish social-democratic leaders—Pedro Sanchez, Jan Hamáček and Mette Frederiksen respectively—who emerge as responsible, caring and solution-driven. Ania Skrzypek is director of research and training at the Foundation for European Progressive ...

Goldman argued that progressivism was ‘as exclusively national a movement as the United States ever knew’. But in the years that followed, a number of works appeared which challenged the validity of this narrowly national interpretation. Arthur Mann, in 1956, suggested that American reformers were much influenced by British social thought. Gertrude Almy Slichter drew attention to the European background of American reform in a 1960 dissertation.

June 2, 2026 - A progressive agenda rejects nationalist, protectionist, and anti-foreigner tendencies, found on both the far left and far right, that would prefer borders closed to trade, talent, and foreign technology.

1 week ago - The EU of 2026 is also more interventionist and protectionist when it comes to its single market. Its increasingly permissive approach to state aid, alongside instruments such as the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act – designed to boost Europe’s strategic industries and counter unfair Chinese competition and supply-chain dominance – and Safe reflect a new willingness to use industrial policy as a geopolitical tool. Brussels has targeted Chinese overcapacity and restricted US firms’ access to EU defence financing through “buy European” requirements intended to strengthen Europe’s own industrial base and the continent’s strategic autonomy. Under both Conservative and Labour governments, the UK historically opposed closer European fiscal integration, large scale supranational borrowing and an activist EU industrial policy, preferring open markets.

October 28, 2019 - But the great recession has transformed the political economy of western Europe. Economic depressions have historically boosted support for the Right rather than the Left. In relation to the nation-state, the strategic conundrum for all progressive parties is that they are torn between a world view that emphasises multi-level governance and internationalism, and the magnetic pull of electorates towards enduring ties of nationhood, identity and belonging.

May 21, 2024 - Both movements—progressivism and authoritarian populism—have been resurgent in recent years. The rise of Fidesz in Hungary and PiS in Poland came on a wave of support for right-wing, nationalist politicians in Europe. They’ve also found success in Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and several other EU countries.

Progressives 4 Europe is a new forum to bring progressives voices together to discuss the challenges ... On March 3, we’ll be in Warsaw for an open event on the European Union’s Open Strategic Autonomy.

April 26, 2024 - What needs to be considered for the sustainable success of this modernization agenda? These questions were discussed on March 7, 2025, in a background roundtable with experts. ... Posted on 11. February 20259. May 2025 · Progressive parties swiftly need to turn the dial, Florian Ranft states in The Guardian.

February 5, 2025 - Focusing attention on heavy-handed state-backed infrastructure projects (later belied by several high-profile corruption scandals) left key public services, namely healthcare and transport, badly neglected, catalysing public anger and leading to the far-right Chega party gaining 38 seats. Even though progressives across the European continent face a brutal portfolio of challenges, there is still room for manoeuvre using the many tools available to the state and to fulfil the promises made to voters in such slogans.

November 23, 2025 - The term economic progressivism, especially while describing policies of progressive taxation, social welfare and general leftist economic measures, finds particular resonance in the parlance of the United States compared to rest of the world. Nations in Europe developed social welfare systems ...

July 19, 2023 - If Europe was such an exemplar of progressive virtue, we would expect to see a powerhouse left-wing establishment. We would expect to see socialist or socially democratic parties dictating the pace of European politics. But that’s not what we see. Sweden’s Social Democrats, who were indeed once a dominant force, won less than 33 percent of the votes in 2022 compared to their 1968 high-water mark that pushed them over 50 percent — quite a feat in a crowded parliamentary system.

June 24, 2024 - The post-2015 decline in immigration and shift of mainstream parties to the right on this issue is a major reason why populists have declined somewhat in many northern and western European countries since 2015. Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.

January 16, 2009 - In 1952, Eric F. Goldman argued that progressivism was ‘as exclusively national a movement as the United States ever knew’. But in the years that followed, a number of works appeared which challenged the validity of this narrowly national interpretation. Arthur Mann, in 1956, suggested that American reformers were much influenced by British social thought. Gertrude Almy Slichter drew attention to the European background of American reform in a 1960 dissertation.

January 22, 2025 - The Group was renamed on 16 January 1973 as the "Group of European Progressive Democrats" when the Gaullists were joined by the Irish Fianna Fáil until 24 July 1984 when they became the "Group of the European Democratic Alliance". The group was never a close alliance. In 1973, the only common ...

April 14, 2024 - Younger people in Western Europe differ in a variety of ways from older adults: They tend to be more left-leaning, more progressive in their social and political views, more receptive to immigrants and more favorable toward the European Union.

April 3, 2017 - For progressives, the way forward requires changing Eurozone governance as well as the way in which the EU works as a whole, in both cases to give more power back to the national level while at the same time enhancing the EU’s coordinating ability.