The Social Economist Returns with Season 3! That’s right - we’re back and we’re delving into the hottest topics impacting the social economy in 2025. This season, we’ll be looking at the wider changing policy landscape influencing the social economy before exploring Europe’s energy transition and the new emphasis on European defence spending.
The Social Economist Season 3 continues! We’re back and we’re delving into the hottest topics impacting the social economy in 2025. This season, we’ll be looking at the wider changing policy landscape influencing the social economy before exploring Europe’s energy transition and the new emphasis on European defence spending.
In Episode 2, we delved into the challenges facing sustainable front runners posed by recent changes in European policy. In Episode 3, host Toby Gazeley from Euclid Network is joined by Malo Bourel from Mouvement Impact France to reflect on what these changes mean for social and impact enterprises.
Malo and Toby discuss changes to key policies like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence Directives. Following the Business for a Better Tomorrow Coalition’s manifesto published leading up to the European elections in 2024, the European context can be seen to have changed dramatically. These changes have impacts for big businesses in Europe but so too for social enterprises with recent changes harming the most ambitious and sustainable impact enterprises. Recent trade disputes are also discussed, noting that even while these global negotiations may seem out of scope for individual enterprises, they will have a (negative) impact on the social economy as a whole.
Malo recommended a thought provoking podcast for our listeners (in French): Loins des yeux loin du care. Toby couldn’t be stopped from recommending a podcast and this time recommended The Crime Agents - for those interested in crime, justice and crime reporting in the UK in particular.
Please do get in touch to toby@euclidnetwork.eu with questions and comments.
A special thanks to our producer Jan Kiszowara and the European Commission for making The Social Economist possible.
Our theme music is ‘another twelve’ by Mikel Patrick Avery at Music for Podcasts.
Please do get in touch to toby@euclidnetwork.eu with questions and comments.
A special thanks to our producer Jan Kiszowara and the European Commission for making The Social Economist possible.
Our theme music is ‘another twelve’ by Mikel Patrick Avery at Music for Podcasts.