“Between 6 and 9 June, the polls will be open across Europe to elect the new European Parliament. The parties are warming up their engines: choosing names, putting forward candidates, thinking up tactics. And the manifestos? The wind of nationalism and the widespread resistance to believing in and fighting for a real alternative in almost all the member states risk leading to proposals that are narrow-minded, timid in facing the challenges of the dual transition, digital and environmental; ambiguous, at best, towards migrants; inadequate to counter the new world disorder, wars and the many inherited injustices. Faced with this scenario, the Forum on Inequality and Diversity has decided to speak up. It is not a descent into the electoral arena. It is an examination of some traits of the European Union that could serve social and environmental justice, an informative and committed contribution, a yardstick to judge – before and after the elections – manifestos, parties, candidacies and elected representatives, a compass for the civic monitoring of the actions that the Union will carry out in the next legislature.

This was the incipit of this book back at the end of March 2024. Many of our pre-election concerns turned out to be founded.”

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