A new ETUI policy brief proposes the implementation of a well-known in economic literature 'Golden Rule of Public Investment', to stimulate growth in Europe. Find out more

Brian Bercusson was a leading expert on European labour law who significantly inspired and influenced the European trade union movement. Find out more

On 14th of October, the ETUI in collaboration with the Institute for European Studies of the University Saint-Louis Brussels organised a seminar on the Chinese economic transformations and labour: The new roles of trade unions. Find out more

Last month, at the Paris congress of the ETUC, the Brian Bercusson Award was conferred upon Dr. Raphaël Callsen, a lawyer with the law firm dka (Berlin), for his PhD thesis entitled ‘Overriding mandatory rules and public policy exception in international labour law – A German-French comparison’. Find out more

The European Environmental Agency (EEA) released the "Trends and projections in Europe 2015". The report states that greenhouse gas emissions in Europe decreased by 23% between 1990 and 2014 and reached the lowest levels on record and that the EU is moving towards emissions reduction target of at... Find out more

During the last ETUI Monthly Forum, Ilaria Maselli, Research Fellow at CEPS, and Frank Vandenbroucke, of the Catholic University of Leuven, discussed the added value of a European unemployment benefit scheme. They presented a preliminary assessment of a research project funded by the European... Find out more

A report from the International Labour Organisation released on 19 January 2016 forecasts that worldwide unemployment will increase to 200 million over the next couple of years. Despite a slight decrease in the unemployment rate in advanced economies (USA, northern and central EU countries), the... Find out more

The right of employee representatives of European Works Councils (EWCs) to inform the workforce about the proceedings on the European level is not self-evident according to a new ETUI policy brief. In this brief, researchers Stan De Spiegelaere and Romuald Jagodzinski, looked at the right and duty... Find out more

The Hans Böckler Foundation’s Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) has just published its Annual Report on collective bargaining developments in Germany in 2015. Find out more

Trade unions in central and eastern (CEE) Europe are using new approaches to attract workers and address broader societal concerns. A project with ETUI involvement takes stock of these innovative techniques. Find out more