Future Generations Initiative - Jesuit European Social Centre

Intergenerational Fairness Strategy: a cautious first step

JESC — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:44:40 +0000

The European Commission has just published its first-ever Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness. This is a moment we have worked towards for years. The Future Generations Initiative — a coalition of civil society organisations jointly coordinated by JESC and The Good Lobby — campaigned for the establishment of a Commissioner responsible for Future Generations, contributed to […]

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Publication: European Union law for Future Generations: what, why and how?

JESC — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:55:33 +0000

We are pleased to share a new policy paper from the Future Generations Initiative, European Union Law for Future Generations: what, why and how?, authored by Katalin Sulyok (Durham University) and Béla Kuslits (JESC). The paper outlines how Intergenerational Fairness can be embedded in EU governance as the Commission prepares its first EU Strategy on […]

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Publication: Impact Assessment for Intergenerational Fairness

JESC — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:34:35 +0000

Intergenerational Fairness has emerged as a new priority in the European Union with the appointment of the first-ever EU Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Sport and Culture. The Commission has tasked the new portfolio with ensuring that decisions “are taken with future generations in mind” and “do no harm to future generations.” This publication brings […]

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Publication: Constitutional Protections for Future Generations among EU Member States

JESC — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:43:37 +0000

We are pleased to release a new study titled “Constitutional Protections for Future Generations among EU Member States”, authored by Thomas Belderbos, postgraduate student of International Law at University College London, during his internship at JESC. The research analyses how 15 EU Member States have embedded the protection of future generations within their constitutions, exploring […]

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Facing Catastrophic Climate Change

JESC — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 +0000

An important scientific article was published a few weeks ago by a group of leading climate scientists. The title already tells its significance and shows that quite possibly we are at a turning point in climate change. Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? “Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C […]

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Future Generations Conference 2024: Shaping tomorrow today

JESC — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:34:05 +0000

In response to the urgent challenges of our time and aligned with the ongoing Future Generations Initiative, the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC), in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and the University of Barcelona, organised a Future Generations Conference on October 3rd at UCLouvain’s Brussels campus. The event provided a platform for interdisciplinary […]

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An EU Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness

JESC — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:12:40 +0000

Due to the EU elections early in the year, Summer was a busy period in Brussels. In the aftermath of the elections, the Council had to make its decisions on the “top jobs”, the president of the European Commission had to be elected, and since then she has been working hard to propose a College […]

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Strategic Agenda: is it the first step to protect future generations?

Béla Kuslits — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:06:32 +0000

The strategic agenda is a document published by the European Council (heads of governments of the member states) which provides directions for the next political cycle after every EU election. This is a de-facto government manifesto for the European Council. Five years ago, this document made the green transition a priority issue- that being the […]

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Future Generations Conference

JESC — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:48:17 +0000

Representing the rights of Future Generations in the legislative work of the EU is an opportunity that brings a long-term perspective to our political thinking in the age of the poly-crisis. Europe was always a long-term journey, never complete but an ongoing experiment in political imagination. Are we on the pathway we want to take? […]

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Official Launch of the Future Generations Initiative

JESC — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:48:14 +0000

It was almost a year ago that we introduced our project on Future Generations. It was a long intellectual journey, in which we analysed the relevant academic literature and institutional models, consulted with old and new partners and worked on our policy document and strategy. In September 2023 we made our final decision to convene […]

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