After months of lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament reached a deal on the platform work directive. The original draft put forward by the European Commission last year covered three main areas, including the introduction of a legal presumption of employment. It seeks to ensure that people... Find out more

Electrification has simply substituted dieselisation, without any change in the business model or in the EU regulatory framework, reveals an alarming ETUI report. The ‘Fit for 55’ revision of the CO2 regulation for new cars and vans will not only keep reinforcing the trend towards heavier and more... Find out more

On 6-7 October, the international symposium ‘The Labour-Environment Nexus: Legal Perspectives and Beyond’ – co-organised by the ETUI and the University of Aix-Marseille – brought together scholars from a range of jurisdictions and disciplines to reflect on the relationship between labour law and the... Find out more

On Wednesday 2 November, Europe Calling organised the webinar ‘ECT: Reform or Exit? - What next for the climate-damaging Energy Charter Treaty?’. The webinar was promoted in cooperation with Anna Cavazzini MEP (Greens/EFA Group), with the aim of taking a closer look at the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT... Find out more

The European Commission launched its proposal to limit excessive gas prices on 22 November, which was labelled as a ‘market correction mechanism’ aiming to limit excessive prices when they are unrelated to global price spikes. The so-called ‘gas cap’ is planned to last a year and would come into... Find out more

On 10 November, the European Commission presented a proposal to reduce air pollution from new motor vehicles sold in the EU to meet the European Green Deal's zero-pollution ambition. The new Euro 7 regulation is set to come into force from July 2025 for cars and vans, and July 2027 for trucks and... Find out more

From 6 to 18 November, world leaders and their political delegations gathered in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th United Nations climate conference. Overshadowed by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, geopolitical tensions over energy and the danger of economic recession, COP27 will go into history... Find out more

Since our last Green New Deal newsletter in September, it looks like the world has gone into ‘crisis overdrive’. Next to the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, rising costs of living and inflation worries, the geopolitical weaponisation of energy, and the accelerating climate emergency, it is now... Find out more

On Wednesday 16 November 2022, the Paris Council voted to create a social charter to make the French capital, host city of the 2024 Olympic Games, an example in terms of safety at work. Supported by the Communist and Citizen Group (GCC), the draft resolution aims to achieve "zero death at work"... Find out more

EU- Report on minimum wage and pay for the self-employed Eurofound published a new report on minimum wages and other forms of pay for the self-employed. The main objective of the report is to understand how minimum wages, wage rates, fees and other forms of pay could be fixed for specific jobs or... Find out more