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... Find out more

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... Find out more

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... Find out more

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... Find out more

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... Find out more

The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to labour market tightness, in which the demand for labour is at least as strong as the supply. Labour shortages have been recorded in some sectors, particularly those involving intensive social contact, where due to safety considerations, former employees have... Find out more

→ 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... Find out more

Download the book PDF for free or order printed version Please use #EUSocialPolicy2020 The OSE and the ETUI have the pleasure to invite you to this webinar for the launch of the 21st edition of ‘Social policy in the European Union’. Programme Welcome and introducing the book outline of the book... Find out more

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... Find out more