ETUI Policy Briefs

European Social Policy

This Policy Brief is edited by Researcher Kurt Vandaele and Philippe Pochet.

European Economic and Employment Policy

This Policy Brief is edited by Senior Researcher Andrew Watt

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European Social Policy

3/2010
Eloi Laurent: Environmental justice and environmental inequalities: a European perspective

2/2010
Philippe Pochet: What's wrong with EU2020? (also available in French)

1/2010
Isabelle Schömann: The Lisbon Treaty: a more social Europe at last?
(also available in French and in German)

1/2009
Eric van den Abeele: The Better Regulation agenda: a ‘new deal’ in the building of Europe (also available in French)

European Economic and Employment Policy

4/2010
Franz Nauschnigg: Growth-friendly fiscal consolidation

3/2010
Andranik Tangian: Not for bad weather: flexicurity challenged by the crisis

2/2010
Koos de Bruijn, Jürgen Kaiser, Nick Dearden, Øygunn Brynildsen and Nuria Molina: Europe needs fair and transparent debt work-out mechanisms: lessons from the Icelandic case

1/2010
Vera Glassner and Maarten Keune: Collective bargaining responses to the economic crisis in Europe

6/2009
Agnes Streissler: Public and private pensions: lessons from the crisis

5/2009
Mariya Nikolova: Light shades of green - Climate-friendly policies in times of crisis

4/2009
Béla Galgóczi: Central Eastern Europe five years after: from 'emerging Europe' to 'submerging' Europe?

3/2009
Sigurt Vitols: The growing crisis in private equity: binding regulation and an action plan are needed

2/2009
Thorsten Schulten: Minimum wages in Europe: new debates against the background of economic crisis

1/2009
Vera Glassner and Béla Galgóczi: Plant-level responses to the crisis: can jobs be saved by working less ?

3/2008
Andrew Watt: The economic and financial crisis in Europe: addressing the causes and the repercussions

2/2008
Philippe Pochet: Social Europe: does hard law still have a role to play?

1/2008
Janine Leschke and Maarten Keune: Precarious employment in the public and private sectors: comparing the UK and Germany

4/2007
Gerald Klec: Flexicurity and the reform of the Austrian severance-pay system

3/2007
Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt: No-vacation nation USA - a comparison of leave and holiday in OECD countries

2/2007
Thorsten Schulten and Andrew Watt: European minimum wage policy - a concrete project for a social Europe

1/2007
Iain Begg and Allan Larsson: The 2007 European challenge: taking world leadership for smart growth

3/2006
Béla Galgóczi and Gintare Kemekliene: Eurozone: 'a club of rich countries with slow growth-dynamic poor countries, please keep out'?

2/2006
Andrew Watt: Assessing the reassessment of the OECD jobs Strategy: eppur si muove ?

1/2006
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: Monetary policy tightening in a fragile recovery: are the ECB's concerns about wage formation justified?

8/2005
Wolfgang Kowalsky: The European Commission's Services Directive: criticisms, myths and prospects

7/2005
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: A trap for the European Central Bank: low growth potential as a self-fulfilling prophecy

6/2005
Ronald Janssen: Social Europe and the challenge of globalisation

5/2005
Andrew Watt: The on-going saga on the Stability and Growth Pact: is the Spring 2005 reform good for growth and jobs?

4/2005
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: Innovation and Competitiveness: Comparing the UK, Germany and the US

3/2005
Gustav A. Horn: Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Policy

2/2005
Ronald Janssen: The broad economic policy guidelines 2005 - 2007: A basis for European economic revival?

1/2005
Andrew Watt and Ronald Janssen: The high growth and innovation agenda of Lisbon: The role of aggregate demand policies