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Leading organisation working on EU #SocialRights. We amplify the voices of people striving for a more social Europe & work to ensure social rights and equality are respected, upheld and mainstreamed across EU policy-making.

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Join our virtual visits on 18 & 28 Nov to meet social economy orgs building inclusive, sustainable work.

Ahead of the EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap & Act, see what’s already happening.

Register now!
#QualityJobs #SocialPlatform #SocialJustice #SocialEconomy #InclusiveWork #EUPolicy
Virtual Study Visits: How Civil Society and Social Economy support Quality Jobs where: Online when: 18 November 14h-16h00 CET and 28 November 14h-15h30 CET
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📢 Join us on November 20th at 10:00 CET at the European Parliament in Brussels!

This event is co-hosted by the @socialistsanddemocrats.eu
and Social Platform.

🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4hJu5jT

ℹ️ Learn more about the event: bit.ly/4nYdESt

⚠️ Spaces are limited!
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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How do you turn big social goals into powerful policy messages? 💬

That’s what our Policy and Projects Officer, Ana Hannotte, tackled during the @sustwellbeing.bsky.social 2° Consortium Meeting in Barcelona.

#SWINS #SocialPlatform #SocialInvestment #EUProjects #SocialPolicy #Collaboration
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🔴 Progress on eradicating #poverty is at a standstill.
The new EU Anti-Poverty Strategy could be a turning point, ensuring everyone can live in dignity!
Check out all our proposals on what it should include in our paper www.socialplatform.org/content/uploads/2025/05/anti-poverty-strategy-paper.pdf
Title reads: Tackling structural inequalities. Subtitle reads: What we need from the EU anti-poverty strategy Title reads: access to adequate resources. Text reads: Ensuring financial security through adequate income support and quality jobs so everyone can meet their basic needs and participate fully in society. Title reads: Access to quality services. Text reads: Guaranteeing universal access to affordable, inclusive, high-quality services support well-being and enable social mobility. Title reads: empowerment, partcipation and inclusion. Text reads: Empowering people experiencing poverty to take an active role in policy-making and implementation.
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What if our economy worked for people and the planet, not just profit?

Comment below ⬇️ and take a look at our paper 👉 socialplatform.org/documents/position-paper-a-wellbeing-economy/

#WellbeingEconomy #PeopleAndPlanet #FutureWeWant
October 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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✨ 30 Years of Impact ✨

📅 Explore the key milestones of our journey and discover how far we’ve come, and where we’re heading next 👉 socialplatform.org/30years/
An infographic reading ’30 years of social platform’ with a pale grey background. Puzzle pieces of different colours form the shape of the number 30. Inside the puzzle pieces the following statements are written in small text: 40+ European social rights NGOs in our membership; Shaping landmark social policies since 1995; Leading successful campaigns and collective action for real social change; Building strong alliances with social rights defenders; Uniting the voices of diverse social groups, amplifying shared needs and priorities; Championing a sustainable, inclusive future of Europe where everyone can thrive.
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A fair and resilient Europe can only be achieved by investing in people!

🗣️ Today at the #PortoSocialForum Social Platform’s Secretary General, Laura de Bonfils, spoke out on #QualityJobs, #Competitiveness and the need for a strong social agenda.
Catch-up on the full speech: forumsocialporto.gov.pt
Text reads: Porto Social Forum 2025. Image of Laura de Bonfils talking into a microphone Quote from Laura reads 'a fair, resilient Europe is only possible by strategically investing in people and their wellbeing throughout their lives'
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🇪🇺 A Competitive Europe Can, and Must be Social Too 🤝

Today marks the start of the #PortoSocialForum, a crucial moment to remind EU leaders that Europe’s drive for competitiveness and security cannot come at the expense of its social foundations.

#SocialEurope #EU #EuropeanPillarOfSocialRights
September 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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✅ We welcome the @europarl.europa.eu’s adoption of the own-initiative report on #PublicProcurement. While not perfect, the report reflects a growing consensus: the lowest price criterion in EU procurement is not working. More in the NSDPP joint statement: www.socialplatform.org/documents/th...
The NSDPP welcomes the European Parliament's step towards a more sustainable public procurement and calls for stronger, binding social and environmental commitments
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#Democracy is under pressure. Join us tomorrow online for a roundtable as part of the BRIDGE project co-funded by @coe.int to discuss your concerns, challenges & ideas for change. Register now 👉https://form.typeform.com/to/lk54HDiP #DemocracyDay
Bridge project logo followed by text that reads: join the discusison on democracy and civic space in europe. Register now: tomorrow 16 September 14:00-16:00 CET
September 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Social Europe must be a priority.

This Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the State of the Union speech.

Earlier this year, we sent her a letter with the priorities we believe should shape the future of the EU.

🌍 Want to know what we asked her to make a priority?
🔗 shorturl.at/0EbgS
September 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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We call for MEPs to support the #PublicProcurement report in tomorrow's vote! European public contracts must be aligned to social & sustainable goals.

The current report is a step in the right direction 👇 @reneweurope.bsky.social @greens-efa.eu @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @eppgroup.bsky.social
Text reads: The sustainable public procurement network calls on meps to support the public procurement report as voted in IMCO! Public procurement must be sustainable and the current report is a step in the right direction.
September 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The next #EUbudget proposal is out, but still no guarantees for funding social rights.

While the @ec.europa.eu has given a 14% target on social spending, will it reach those who need it most? We call for concrete commitments to fight poverty and exclusion:
www.socialplatform.org/news/the-new...
July 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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✈️ Just arrived in Aalborg for the informal #EPSCO meeting!
 
Representing Social Platform are Réka Tunyogi, Acting Secretary General, and newly elected Vice-President Catherine Naughton.
 
Proud to bring Social Rights to the table 💪
#AalborgEPSCO2025 @eu2025dk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Socially-responsible public procurement is the pathway to a triple win - to tendering authorities, competing entities and civil society.

We urge MEPs to go beyond lowest-price competition and adopt social-environmental gains as key criteria.

Read our joint letter: shorturl.at/Qn7ap
Prioritise decent work, fair wages & sustainability
July 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Congratulations to our new Board 🎉

We are delighted to welcome Social Platform's new Management Committee who will guide our network over the next 2 years. We can't wait to work together to continue to advance #socialrights in Europe!
Dark blue background. Photo of elected board members standing together. Text reads 'Congratulations to the new board!'
June 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The 2025 Spring Package is out... But what does it mean for social Europe? 

💡 Check out our analysis (in a nutshell): www.socialplatform.org/news/2025-se... #EuropeanSemester #Competitiveness
Text reads: Competitiveness must not undermine social europe.
June 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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➡️Wellbeing should remain at the heart of the EU agenda

That’s the message our Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer Katja Reuter brought to #MentalHealthWeek during the European Parliament event Care for Mental Health, Invest in Social Rights

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Social Platform at Mental Health week 19-25 may All EU action, including on competitiveness, must primarily serve the wellbeing of people, not the other way around
May 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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✊We joined today’s demonstration in Brussels alongside other NGOs and associations to speak out against harmful social spending cuts in Belgium.

These changes will hit public services, wages, and social support hard — and civil society is standing up.
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Our reminder to EU policymakers on #EuropeDay:
don't forget your commitments to #SocialRights! 🇪🇺

A strong, thriving Europe needs resilient, inclusive and fair societies. We call for an ambitious European Pillar of Social Rights action plan that ensures no one is left behind.
More coming soon! 📢
Illustration of different people's faces with colourful background. Text reads: When people thrive, Europe thrives. Text reads: Eu policymakers must put social rights and wellbeing at the heart of their competitiveness agendas and ensure that the new european pillar of social rights action plan delivers for all.
May 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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What democratic challenges exist in #Belgium? Share your experiences at our national roundtable on 15 May in Brussels & discover how the @coe.int Reykjavik Principles for Democracy can be used in your work to help stop democratic backsliding.
Register to join 👉 shorturl.at/3xGLl
BRIDGE Roundtable Discussions Belgium. Democratic challenges we face and what helps us push back. 15 May, 13:00 - 17:00. VET House, 28 Boulevard Charlemagne Brussels Democratic backsliding, institutional distrust, disinformation In response, BRIDGE is creating space for grounded, civil society-led conversations that shape how democracy is defended and rebuilt. Why now? Why us? 1 Its goal: to enhance the capacity, resilience, and engagement of CSOs by: raising awareness of Council of Europe standards strengthening cooperation with the Council of Europe and deepening civil society’s role in democratic life. 2. What happens in Brussels? We will map democratic challenges faced in Belgium. We will share real, grounded practices that help people participate and push back. We will work on Reykjavik Principles for Democracy and parameters to monitor democracy across Europe. Do they reflect our lived reality? What’s missing? 3. Want to be in the room? We are inviting you to be part of the roundtable discussion. Activists, young people, professionals, government representatives, decisionmakers and CSO leaders. Sign Up Today 15 MAY 2025
May 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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🔴 Recent attacks on NGOs from some @europarl.europa.eu MEPs are based on disinformation - not facts.

Accusations of wrongdoing without evidence only serves to undermine civil society's vital role in our democracies. Together with 600 NGOs we stand for truth & transparency 📢 shorturl.at/R3Fpx
Blue background. Text reads 'MEPs must defend NGOs from political attacks'. Features a cut-out black and white image of a woman shouting into a megaphone and Social Platform's logo Blue background. Text reads ' Social Platform joins 600 civil society organisations calling for the European Parliament to oppose false narratives and disinformation on NGOs role and funding'
May 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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2024 was a year of change and challenge, but Social Platform kept pushing for social rights, inclusion, and a fairer Europe for all.

💡 Our 2024 Impact Report looks back at everything we’ve worked for.

👉 Take a look: lnkd.in/dvqbVfiP

#SocialRights
2024 impact report
May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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🔵 Today at the Informal #EPSCO Council, hosted by the Polish Presidency of @consilium.europa.eu our Vice-Present, Mikael Leyi, addressed social affairs ministers on the issue of migration and social cohesion. Our message: for an equal, fair and just society, #SocialRights cannot be limited 📢
A photo of Mikael Leyi alongside a quote that reads: Social rights must be accessible to all - regardless of migration status. It is crucial that the next EU budget keeps social inclusion as a top priority, with standalone EU funds such as ESF+ and AMIF. We must place human rights at the centre of policy making!
April 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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💭 Did you miss our "What's Next for Social Europe?" event?

Here are 5️⃣ key takeaways from the session!

A big thank you to all participants and guest speakers who joined us 🙌

👉 Don’t want to miss our upcoming events? Subscribe to our newsletter: lnkd.in/dJt6HKP3
April 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM