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Social Democrats in Europe: Solidarity with an Expiry Date?

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Der Standard

European social democracy faces a crisis, questioned by its perceived failures and the rise of right-wing forces.

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EfSyn - GRE

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Social democratic parties in Europe are currently struggling, with their perceived solutions to crises proving to be long-term failures, and improvement not being visible in the near future. The upcoming May Day is described as an international distress signal reflecting the state of European social democracy. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated that the right-wing and far-right groups are vocal because they know their time is limited, and he initiated a summit for left-wing, progressive forces to develop a collective response to the rise of right-wing forces.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.