Welcome by Peter Scherrer, Deputy General Secretary ETUCIntroduction by Emmanuel Jacob, EUROMIL PresidentSpeakers:Ton De Zeeuw, FNV Veiligheid, The Netherlands, EUROMIL TreasurerPierluciano Mennonna, CGIL, ItalyQ&A sessionModerator: Philippe Pochet, General Director ETUIBriefing: Workers... Find out more

Although it can be observed that on average, labour market insecurity and unemployment risk have increased since 2007 across all EU Member States, there is a clear indication now that fiscal austerity has had uneven effects across countries. The indicators concerning social and labour market... Find out more

Speakers: Kate Raworth, Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and an Associate at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)... Find out more

Event hosted by Philippe LAMBERTS - MEP Programme Introduction: Philippe Pochet, European Trade Union Institute Social Policy in the EU : state of play 2017 – Key messagesSebastiano Sabato and Bart Vanhercke, European Social Observatory Developments in the EU’s socio-economic governance: beyond... Find out more

Just transition has been a long-standing trade union demand for a fair and balanced way of how to transform the current energy and resource depleting production and consumption model into a sustainable low carbon economy. By `proactive just green transition` we mean that fair burden sharing and... Find out more

Speakers: Stan De Spiegelaere and Agnieszka Piasna, ETUI Senior researchersSophie Jaenicke, IG MetallComments: Richard Pond, EPSUModerator: Philippe Pochet, General Director ETUIBriefing:Europeans are working less and less. Since 2007, the average working time decreased by almost an hour. So, can... Find out more

Speakers: Valeria Pulignano, Professor of Sociology of Labour and Industrial Relations, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, BelgiumNathan Lillie, Professor of Social and Public Policy, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandComments: Ben Egan, Advisor... Find out more

Speakers: Pamela Meil, Senior Research Fellow and member of the board of governors at the Institute for Social Science Research, Germany, Vassil Kirov, Associate Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Researcher at the ETUI and Daniel Nordgård, Associate Professor, University... Find out more

ETUI is organising a conference to openly debate effects of transition and EU integration on the Central and Eastern European countries and what this means in terms of upwards convergence for the region. Find out more

Speakers: Alexandre Afonso, Assistant professor of public policy, Leiden university (NL)Daphne Halikiopoulou, Associate Professor of comparative politics, university of Reading (UK)Tim Vlandas, Associate professor of political economy, university of Reading (UK)Karl Pichelmann, Senior advisor... Find out more