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The chapter discusses social governance in six Southern European countries, namely Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain, members of the European Union, comparing them among themselves and then with other groups of countries. In this chapter, social governance is defined as the setting and implementation of policies aimed at optimizing social wellbeing. The chapter identifies outcomes of social governance, namely education, health, living standards, gender equality and social cohesion. An index of social governance is constructed across countries using these five variables, with data sourced from global databases for the period 2010–19. The results show that the six Southern European countries registered relatively low scores, when compared to their northern European counterparts, and relatively high scores when compared to the Central and Eastern European EU member states. The …