In about a year, the EU will be heading to elections following a European Commission and European Parliament term marked by public health, climate, energy and cost-of-living crises which have impacted disproportionately those on lower incomes. Improving the resilience of our societies to the causes... Lire plus

Multinational companies (MNCs) frequently invest in countries with lower wages and worse trade union representation than in their home country. This could be expected to lead to a stronger position for capital relative to labour in all countries. However, there have also been hopes that MNCs might... Lire plus

At this conference, experts from academia, trade unions and the European Commission will exchange perspectives on the impact of NextGenerationEU (NGEU) on national and EU social and labour policies. How different is this recovery strategy from the way the EU managed the 2011 euro crisis? What role... Lire plus

Having barely recovered from the successive waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, European economies are now facing another serious shock. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that have followed have given rise to inflation rates unseen for several decades, driven primarily by higher energy... Lire plus

The European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time’s biannual conference will address the possibilities of a four-day week in Europe, and what real working time reduction could look like. There will be three panel discussions. The first will look at best practice examples across Europe, with... Lire plus

→ Download your copy While the EU institutions are preparing to return to ‘some kind of normal’ as regards the EU’s economic governance – thereby marking the gradual end of the exceptional pandemic period – the International Monetary Fund’s most recent World Economic Outlook refers to the continued... Lire plus

L' OSE et l'ETUI ont le plaisir de vous inviter à ce webinaire en vue du lancement de la 21ème édition du " Bilan social de l'Union européenne ". Programme Introduction : Luca Visentini (ETUC), Philippe Pochet (ETUI), Oliver Röpke (ÖGB, CESE) et Bart Vanhercke (OSE) Après les élections européennes... Lire plus

The current pandemic continues to set back the European economy and is expected to cause an even deeper recession than the ones caused by the global financial and Eurozone crises, whose scars had been barely overcome in several countries in Europe. Although the short-term emergency responses to the... Lire plus